Sons, May

1906 - 1970  (64 years)

• Name	Sons, May
  Birth	10 Feb 1906	Illinois   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Census		1910 Census, Berry Township, Wayne County, Illinois, sheet 14A 1910 United States Federal Census, Berry Township, Wayne County, Illinois, (District 0015), image 17, sheet 14A
  Reference Number	SONS.M001
  _FGRAVE	37810746
  Death	13 Aug 1970	St. Clemens Hospital, Red Bud, Randolph County, Illinois
  Burial	Warren Cemetery, Orchardville, Wayne County, Illinois   [2]
  Person ID	I41736	Carl Wayne Gray Research | Sons - Laird James Elias Sons Sr. and Ellen Laird Descendants
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Sons, David Nelson 'Nels',   b. 1868, Illinois d. 1948 (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Oehler, Mary Pauline,   b. Oct 1870, Ohio d. 1957, Wayne County, Illinois (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	Y  [1, 2]
  Family ID	F755	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Manring, Julius Linza,   b. 8 Nov 1903, Orchardville, Wayne County, Illinois d. 13 Jan 1984, St. Mary's Hospital, Centralia, Marion County, Illinois (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F16331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Oct 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 10 Feb 1906 - Illinois Death - 13 Aug 1970 - St. Clemens Hospital, Red Bud, Randolph County, Illinois Burial - - Warren Cemetery, Orchardville, Wayne County, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Obituary from Wayne County Press, 8/13/1970: May Manring of Orchardville died at 3 a.m. Thursday at St. Clemens Hospital in Red Bud, at the age of 64. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the New church at Orchardville, with the Rev. Berlin Scarborough officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Richardson Funeral Chapel in Wayne City, where friends may call after 4 p.m. today. Mrs. Manring is the daughter of David Nelson and Mary (Coehler) Sons. She married Linza Manring, who survives. Other survivors include four sons . . . ; a step son . . . ; two daughters, . . . ; a brother, Byrl Sims of Flora; a sister, Inez Manring; 22 grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren.

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, Berry Township, Wayne County, Illinois, (District 0015), image 17, sheet 14A, (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7884/31111_4328227-00684?pid=6081018&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ss) (Reliability: 2). [S13112] https://www.findagrave.com, Headstone, Manring, J. L. and May, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37810746/may-manring), none. (Reliability: 2).