The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-17
FUNERAL OF MR. MANNING.
5. C. Colleges Acting President and
Students Pay Tribute to the Popular
Young Man.
From The State. Dec. Il.

From The State, Dec. II.
Yesterday morning the body Of the
late Mr.. Richard I. Manning, Jr.,
the popular student of the South Car.
olina College who died at his home in
Sumter was brought to Columbia,
being accompanied by many from
Sumter and escorted by committee
Of students of the college who had gone
to Sumter for the purpose carrying
with them handsome floral tributes
from the students.
The train was met here by the Gov
ernor's Guards of which the young
man was member and the student
body of the college, and the body was
escorted by them to Trinity Episcopal
church where the funeral services
were conducted by the rector, the Rev.
| Churchill Satterlee, assisted by the
Rev. 81. II. Covington of Sumter.
The church was filed with friends
of the dead student, and the floral
offerings were many and beautiful.
The interment was in the churchyard.
The pallbearers, selected from among
the young mans most intimate
friends, were as follows:
Senior Academic-W. P. Herbert,
j. T. Holmes, j. B. Withers, 7. G.
Law.
Junior Law. W. Gilland, W.
G.. Martin, G.. D. Levy, @. E. Com
mander, Andrew A. Manning.
At chapel services at the chapel yes
terday morning Acting President Sloan
addressed the students and later the
student body adopted strong resolu-
tions.
Prof. Slcan said:
For many days as we have taken
our places, morning after morning, In
this chapel, you and I have missed
the familiar form and the bright face
of one of your best beloved compan-
ions. For more than six weeks that
companion languished upon a bed OF
sickness, and yesterday the news came
to US that death had done its work.
Richard I. Manning, Jr., the gen.
tleman, the manly man, your friend
and mine is dead. We all loved him,
we honored him living, we mourn him
dead.
On an occasion like this words are
of no use and our hearts t1rn in silent
sympathy to the bereaved father
and mother, and in the earnestness OF
that sympathy we stretch out oul
hands to clasp their hands; it is al
that we can do.
Mr.. Manning's body will be
brought from Sumter to Columbia this
morning and will be. buried in Ole
Trinity churchyard in the burial
ground of the Manning family, and il
seems best to me that we should &C
down to the station in a body, stu
dents and professors, and thence escort
Mr.. Manning's body to his last earth
| " resting place. The faith that is
within us assigns to him after a brief
| rest there brighter life and asweetel
| rest In the world beyond Indeed, is
he not now basking in the perfect
light of a perfect day. .-@---
"As mark of the high esteem in
which Mr.. Manning was held by the
faculty, and as an expression of Its
sorrow because of his death. The
faculty has adopted the resolution
which I will now read to you.
/" The faculty of the South Caro-
lima college hereby records its pro
found sorrow at the recent death OF
Richard / Manning, Jr., a member
of the junior law class in the college,
and expresses its sympathy with the
bereayed parents and family of the de-
ceased in their affection.
In the death of Mr.. Manning, the
college has lost one Of its bright jew
els. He was a young man of high
worth and great promise. Edowed
] with the power of fine intellectual
gifts, adorned with the graces of gen.
tlemaly culture, guided by the prin-
ciples of Christian faith, he lived
among his fellows maintaining high
ideals of honor, noted for his loyalty
to his friends, to his college and to
his native State, and distinguished for
his integrity of purpose and manliness
of spirit.
Resolved, That suspending college
exercises on the 10th day of December,
1902, the faculty and students will at
send the funeral of their lamented
friend, and that copy Of this tribute
be sent to the bereaved father and
| mother and to the daily press. -.
stIn obedience to this resolution !
announced that all college exercises
will be suspended for the day, and
will ask the students and professors to
assemble in front of the chapel at &c
minutes to II O'Clock, so that we may
go down to the station and take part
in the funeral ceremonies. - -,
The following resolutions were
adopted by the two societies:
stAnother soul has been called to its
final resting place, and in answer to
| this call Richard I. Manning, Jr.,
has left this community in SORROW and
sadness to mourn his loss.
"Young, manly, faithful and con-
scientious, he lived life worthy OF
emulation. WITH high sense Of hon
or and duty, his nobleness and integ.
rity of character, his fearlessness in
upholding whit he thought to be right,
made him one Of the most promising
members of our sister society, the
Euphradian.
"While bowling to the will of AL
| oiohtv God in takinp him from on,