OBIT: John C. MANNING, 1918, Mt. Etna, Blair County, PA

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MANNING.

  The remains of Private John C. Manning who died Friday morning, Oct. 
11, of pneumonia, following an attack of influenza at Fort Adams, Rhode 
Island, arrived at Williamsburg on Saturday and were taken to the rooms 
of Undertaker H. O. Snively.  The young man enlisted early last spring 
and left with a contingent of Blair county men to different camps and 
finally was transferred to Fort Adams.  He is survived by his father, 
William Manning, of Mt. Etna, and the following brothers and sisters: 
Mrs. Elsie Putt, Mrs. Rose Lingenfelter of Canoe Creek, Mrs. Ida 
Kennedy of Cleveland, O., Miss Margaret Manning of Brownsville, Pa., 
and Privates C. D. and Samuel R. Manning, who enlisted April, 1917 and 
for the past six months engaged in active service in the trenches.  
Private services will be conducted this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the 
parlors of Undertaker Snively by Rev. J. M. Rearick.  Interment in 
Yellow Springs cemetery.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, October 14, 1918