The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-10
DEATH.

Richard Irvine Manning, Jr., the
eldest son of Hon. r. /. Manning,
died at $50 O'Clock Tuesday morning
athis fathers home on East Liberty
Street, after nine weeks illness, CT
typhoid fever, aged 19 years and S
months. He was student at the
South Carolina College, a member
of the senior class, when be fell sick,
but was brought home as soon as the
serious nature of his malady became
manifest. Week after week the battle
between life and death went on, hope
and fear alternating, almost, day by
day. All that medical skill could do
to break the fever failed of effect,
and it was only the strength and yigor
of his constitution that resisted the
disease for so long and encouraged
the hope to the last that his youth
and strength would carry him safely
pass the crisis. But it was not to be,
and he was cut off at the dawn Of
manhood, when life Of usefulness and
promise was just opening before him.
He was a manly young man-out-
spoken, sincere, and steadfast of pur-
pose and loyal in his friendships.
Among his associates, here and at
college, be had that true measure Of
popularity that springs from esteem and
recognition Of character and individu-
al worth; and the confidence and love
of his elders he had won and retained.
Hence his death carries with it a
weight Of sorrow to wide circle of
friends, who, sensible of The loss they
have sustained, can and do sympathize
with those whose closer and tenderer
bonds of relationship make the loss
far greater and the sorrow harder to
be borne with resignation.
Hon. r. I. Marning's residence at
$50 o'clock this morning, and
the body was taken to Columbia on
the 9.35 train for interment in the
family plot in Trinity Church yard.
The following committee of students
representing the South Carolina Col
lege attended the funeral and returned
to Columbia with the body:
Euphradian Society-Thomas G.
Law, George D. Levy.
Law Associa W. Gilland.
Senior Class-Wm. Pinckney Her
bert, James c.. Holmes.
The entire faculty and student body
OF the college will attend the burial
service at Trinity Church at noon to-
day.
The pallbearers who will act in Co.
Iumbia have been selected from Mr..
Manning's intimate friends among the
South Carolina college students and
are as follows: Senior academic-W.
P. Herbert, j. G. Holmes, J. B.
Withers, T. G. Law, Junior law-L.
". Gilland, w. @. Martin, G. D.
Levy, G. E. Commander.
The Columbia State of today has
the following notice of Mr.. Manning:
Hundreds of Columbians were mex
pressibly shocked yesterday to learn
of the death of Mr.. Richard I. Man
ming, Jr., of Sumter. Mr. Manning
was we'll known in Columbia, having
been for several years student at the
South Carolina college and was up to
the time of his last illness member
of the junior law class. He was one
of. the most popular men who ever at
tended the college and was prominent
in its several societies and in the
management of its athletic teams. He
had a host of friends and among his
great number of acquaintances there
was none who called him enemy. No
sadder death has occurred in recent
years than this passing into the great
beyond of the soul Of this splendid type
of the gallant, courteous, honorable,
southern gentleman.