James manuel biven son of joseph harry and mary gertrude green biven born on february 14 1914 in bardstown kentucky. he lived in bardstown kentucky for 20 plus years. He was join in holy matrimony to mary ella Ballard on January 11 1933 in bardstown Kentucky to union nine of ten ch ilden were born. Living in Kentucky one of his occupation were cook. James and his family moved to Indianapolis Indiana . He worked packing meat at kingdom co packing house. James manual biven departed this life on September 2 1961 at the age of forty years old.