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William V. Manning - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post April 9, 1949

AUTO ACCIDENT FATAL TO FORMER TALLULAH MAN
Services In Tallulah For William V. Manning Sunday

TALLULAH, La., April 9 -- William V. Manning, 60, a former resident of Tallulah, was killed in an 
automobile accident late Friday near Nashville, Tenn., according to information received last night 
by relatives here.

Mr. Manning was an inspector for the National Hardwood Lumber Association of Chicago, working in the 
Nashville area. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and had lived in Tallulah in former years.

The body will arrive in Tallulah early Sunday and funeral services will be held at the Tallulah Baptist 
Church, Sunday afternoon, with the Rev. Shirley Briggs, pastor, officiating. The hour of the services 
had not been established this morning. Burial will be in the Silver Cross Cemetery.

Members of the Portland, Arkansas, Masonic lodge, of which Mr. Manning was a member, will take part in 
the rites at the grave.

The Crothers funeral home in charge.

Mr. Manning is survived by his wife, Mrs. Stella Manning of Nashville; one son, William F. Manning of 
Mendenhall, Miss.; two daughters. Mrs. Margie M. Pritts of Tallulah and Mrs. Ruby Harkey of Tallulah, 
four brothers, Roy. Manning of New Orleans; Ollie Manning of Hamburg, Ark., Wright Manning of Hamburg 
and Fred Manning of Booneville, Ark.; four sisters, Mrs. Dan Johnson of Memphis, Mrs. Herbert Dawkins 
of Bastrop, Mrs. Jim Johnson of Crossett, Ark. and Mrs. Bruce Hollingsworth of Forrest City, Ark.