Beaverton Historical Society
Gladwin County Obituary/Death Notice
 
Mark Morris
Manley Morris Is Dead In Country's Service
Falls Victim Of Penumonia At U.S. Aviation Camp In Ire.

   Advice received by his parents brings news of the death of Manley Morris from pneumonia at a U.S. aviation camp in Ireland, Oct. 30, after an illness of only six days. He enlisted in February last and went with Elden Capling to Omaha, then to Texas, and from there overseas as a mechanic in the aviation corps. A letter written only a week before his death, recently received said that he was in the best of health and spirits.
   At the time of his death Manley was aged 21 years, 7 months and 20 days. He was born in Saginaw county, and when only three years of age came to Tobacco township, Gladwin county, with his parents, and has since lived there and at Beaverton. He leaves his wife, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manley Morris of Beaverton, two sisters, Mrs. L. J. Budge of Beaverton, and Mrs. Gordon Capling of Gladwin; two brothers, M. Robert Morris of Gladwin and Gordon Morris of Bay Port.

 
 
Personal Information
Death Date
Burial/Final Location
Service
10/30/1918
Dale Cemetery, Beaverton, MI
Avi. Corps.
 
Publication Information
Pub. Date
Publication
Pub. Page
11/28/1918
Gladwin County Record, Gladwin, MI
P:1 C:5
 
Transcription Information
Date
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Source Media
January 2005
Tom Ladner
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