George Manifee

MANIFEE, SOWERS, KUNKLER, ALLEN, EDWARDS, TOMS, MCKIBBON

Posted By: J. Mawdsley (email)
Date: 8/4/2003 at 20:06:19

ANOTHER VETERAN ANSWERED 'TAPS'
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GEO. MANIFEE, 91, PASSED INTO GREAT BEYOND CHRISTMAS MORNING
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George Manifee, 91, eldest of the four surviving Civil war veterans in Nevada, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dave Sowers, 1816 Fourth Street, at an early hour on Christmas morning, from the effects of injuries received when he slipped upon the ice and fell, on the evening of December 17.

Short funeral servieces for the aged veteran were held at the Bishop Funeral home this afternoon at 2:30 and late today the relatives will leave with the body for Lamar, Mo., where funeral services will be held and internment made by the side of his deceased wife, on Saturday.

Mr. Manifee was a native of Tipton county, Virginia, where he was born May 24, 1838, his age being 91 years, 7 months, and 1 day at the time of his passing.

He was a veteran of the A company, 169th Indiana Volumteer Infantry with whom he served throughout the Civil war.

He leaves two daughters, they being Mrs. David Sowers of Nevada and Mrs. A.B. Kunkler of Lamar, Mo. Since the death of Mrs. Manifee a number of years ago, he had divided his time between the two daughters, much of the time having been spent with Mrs. Sowers of Nevada.

He had been a member of Jason D. Ferguson Post G. A. R. of this city at the time of the surrendering of the charter, and the time of his death on Christmas morning was the eldest of the four surviving veterans in Nevada. The other veterans in the city are M. C. Allen, John S. Edwards and W.M. Toms.

The funeral services here were in charge of Elder Wm. A. McKibbon of the Seventhday Adventist church, a neighbor and old friend of Mr. Manifee.

At the time of the accident which resulted in the death of the aged veteran, it was realized that his injuries were fatal and that there was no chance for recovery.

It was upon the evening of December 17, after a day of heavy fog, which the evening's lowering temperature had frozen, that the old man, regardless of the protest of his daughter, stepped out upon the back porch. He slipped upon the ice and as he fell his left side struck upon a barrel. His ribs were crushed in and he was otherwise so badly injured, that the attending surgeon recognized that there was no hopes for his recovery.

The daughters and other members of the family will be extended the most profound sympathy of the entire community in the hours of their great sorrow.

From the Nevada Journal, Dec. 25, 1929.