Manly, Ralza Morse
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 40, credited to Dorset, VT Unit(s): 16th NH INF, 1st US CCAV Service: Chaplain, 16th NH INF; Chaplain, 1st USCC [College: WU 49]. Methodist-Episcopal, post-war Virginia Freedmen's Bureau See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 01/16/1822, Dorset, VT Death: 09/16/1897 Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, CA Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Kenyon Luce Findagrave Memorial #: 25421577 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 11/4/1890, MA; widow Mary P., 10/1/1897, CA Portrait?: Findagrave, Encyclopedia Virginia College?: WU 49 Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS 3rd Great Grandfather of Floyd E. Guliford, Shawnee, KS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, CA Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Obituary
San Diego
Special CorrespondenceAn esteemed resident and a distinguished educator in the broadest sense, Prof. Ralza Morse Manly, died Thursday, and the funeral was held yesterday from the Congregational Church. Mr. Manly established the Virginia Freedman's (sic) Bureau and was kept at its head for twenty years. Then he was a member of Wellesley's faculty for a number of years. He was 75 years old.
Source: Los Angeles Evening Express, 18 Sep 1897
Transcribed by Tom Ledoux
See also articles in the Encyclopedia Virginia, the Library of Virginia, and a National Archives article, The Freedmen's Bureau, in their African American Heritage project, related to his work with the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau immediately after the war.