Cary A. "Jack" Manor (1893-1939)

MANOR, BILLINGER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/28/2022 at 18:50:06

From Nevada Evening Journal August 10, 1939 (page 1)

Searching for Relatives of Collins Suicide

Collins, Aug. 10--An effort is being made today to locate relatives of Cary (Jack) Manor, 47, local man who suicided Wednesday by hanging himself to a tree in a grove on a farm west of Collins, where the body was found by boys and later reported as that of a "floater."

He came to the Collins neighborhood with the Tom Fever family about 25 years ago and had worked on farms much of the time since, with the exception of the year he was in the army during the World war. He entered the service July 24, 1918, leaving Nevada with the Camp Pike contingent on July 24.

He, with some other men, made his home in rooms over the Gazette office. Without awaking the others he left the room early Wednesday morning an was later found by Charles Ortberg and Laurel Anderson, the dead body suspended by a light rope, from the limb of a tree in a clump of timber west of town.

Marshal Ketchell was notified by the boys and he, with others, went out to look after the case. Sheriff McGriff was called, but at the time the body had not been recognized at that of Manor, hense the report that the suicide was a "floater."

He is thought to have one living sister, whose last known address was El Paso, Ill. An effort is being made to locate the sister or other relatives.

He had been a member of the American Legion here at times and that group will probably have charge of the burial in the event relatives are not located.

"Jack" Manor was a hard working man and was well liked among the people of the community and those by whom he had been employed.

Despondency over the lack of regular work is thought to be the cause of his suicide.

Funeral rites will be held Friday, service to be held at the Cooper funeral home in Maxwell with Rev. Woolson of the Collins U. B. church conducting the service.

Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery at Collins, with the Collins post American Legion in charge.

From Nevada Evening Journal August 15, 1939 (page 6)

Bury Cary Manor at Collin After Services at Maxwell

Special to the Journal:
Maxwell, Aug. 16--Funeral services for Cary A. Manor of Collins who took his own life by hanging on Wednesday, Aug. 9, were held in the Cooper funeral home at Maxwell, Friday forenoon Aug. 11, at 10:00 with the Rev. L. F. Woolson of the Collins U. B. church. Music for the services was furnished by Dorothy Moore of Maxwell and Betty Higgens of Woodbine with Darlene Moore of Maxwell at the piano. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery at Collins. The services were in charge of the Freeland-Carver post of the American Legion, of which he had been a member. The pallbearers were chosen from the Legion and were A. W. Kracht, W. R. Rumbaugh, J. R. Armstrong, B. L. Keagle, L. D. Holland and G. C. Fish.

Cary Manor, 47, was born at Indianapolis, Inc., and came to Collins as a young man, where he worked on farms in this community. He enlisted in the army at Nevada, July 25, 1918, at the age of 26 years and was one of the large contingent which left on that date for Camp Pike, Ark. He served overseas and was a private in casualty detatchment No. 326, 163rd brigade. He was discharged at Camp Dodge, April 24, 1919.

"Jack" as he was known by his friends was a generous, kind-hearted man and the people of this community are sincerely grieved that death came in this manner.

He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Billinger of Bloomington, Ill., and she and her husband were present at the services.