Obituary,
George S. Mankin
            George Sedwick Mankin, known as 'Uncle Seddy', died August 10, 1928 at six o'clock Friday morning in his residence, 1100 Seventh Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana. He was 62 years of age. The son of William Thomas Mankin  and Rebecca Orison Mankin of Parke County, he was born there, January 28, 1866.  He made his living as a coal miner and, in later years, as a farmer on land he owned near Saint Mary Of The Woods. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ola McCaulkin Mankin, who he united with December 8, 1902, and three nephews, Arthur Woods of Terre Haute, A.D. Woods of El Paso, Texas and Gilbert Beebe Woods of Los Angeles, California. Services will be held Sunday afternoon, in his residence, at 3 o'clock PM, and burial will take place at Highland Lawn Cemetery.

Abstract compiled from a Terre Haute Newspaper in the Deaths Reported Section
Saturday August 11, 1928, copy in Terre Haute Library.
Mankin Family History by Mary Craig of Montezuma IN, copy in Rockville and Terre
Haute Public Libraries, and in a letter from Mary Craig, 1998.