There is no gravestone for him. The open space to the right of the Manning monument is where he is interred. Both of these Manning lots were purchased at the same time. A government headstone has been order. - Jeff Richman,
Green-Wood Cemetery Historian

Photograph of John H. Manning taken between August 4, 1862 and August 1, 1863.

John H. Manning
June 13, 1843 - March 4, 1915

Priv.; Res. Cambridge; brush maker; 19; enl. Aug. 4, 1862; must. Aug 10, 1862; apptd. Corpl., Aug. 2, 1863; Sergt. March 3, 1864; must. out June 6, 1865.

Map of Grave Location - Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY

Obituary

New York Times - March 5, 1915, Page 9

MANNING. - On March 4, 1915. John H., husband of Jeannette R. Manning, in his 74th year. Funeral services at his late residence, 314 Lewis Av., Brooklyn. Saturday at 8 P. M. Boston, Mass., and Cincinnati, Ohio, papers please copy.

Biography

John Howard Manning was born June 13, 1843 in Sligo, Ireland, the oldest child of James and Mary Jones Manning. The family, including John's younger brother William, immigrated to the U.S. in 1848-9, during the potato blight. They settled in Boston, later moving to East Cambridge. By 1860, he was working as a brush-maker and was employed at the Charleston Navy Yard.

He was enrolled as a private by the mayor on August 4, 1862 in the 9th Independent Battery, Light Artillery of the Massachusetts Volunteers. Six days later he was at Camp Stanton in Lynnfield. A month after Gettysburg he was promoted to Corporal and in March of '64 he became Gunner. Six months later he was again promoted to Sergeant at Weldon Railroad. He was mustered out at Galloups Island on June 6, 1865.

In 1868 he moved to Chicago. He worked as a fireman and later as an engineer on a steam fire engine for A.D. Titsworth. He was employed as such when Ma Leery's cow tipped over the lantern. He moved to Cincinnati about 1872 and worked for a dealer in steam heating. In 1873 he married Louise Kauffman. They moved for a time to Indiana and back again to Ohio, during which time they had three sons and John owned his own steam apparatus business. Louise died in 1879 of tuberculosis. Her request that on her demise he marry her best friend was honored in Greensburg, Indiana when he wed Jeanette Sovereign. He worked as a steam fitter and they had a son and a daughter before moving to Chicago in 1886. He worked for the Crane Co. and was transferred to New York about 1896 as a mechanical engineering superintendent. He secured several patents for steam-related devices that were assigned to the company which allowed a certain level of temporary prosperity to his heirs when he died March 4, 1915 in Brooklyn. He is buried there with his second wife, son and daughter-in-law near Canna Path in Sec. 131 of the Green-Wood Cemetery.

Source: Manning, Barry. Email message from John H. Manning's great-grandson. May 6, 2006.