Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

IN HONORE CASORUM
The promise... Always honored, never forgotten.

Sgt. T. J. Jones
Greater Cleveland Transit Police Department, Ohio

April 5, 2015

To Harry Mannon

No Bard will tell the story
Of his fearless life and death—
Of the call to duty answered
By his lips with closing breath.
But, when the soul of Mannon
Took its flight from earth today.
From the fields of restless toil
A true MAN was borne away.
In the hearts and in the souls
Of his friends his story’s told,
Any they prize the heritage
More than Nevada’s gold.
For the gold that lies hidden
In the vaults of earth and rock
With the wreck of earth will pass—
But the soul survives the shock
When the Book of Life is read
In the light of Heaven’s day
There’ll be a page for Harry—
The bards have naught to say.

—H.W. Knickerbocker, Tonopah Bonanza, April 16, 1905

Harry Mannon was deputized by my great-grandfather, Nye County Sheriff Tom Logan, in early 1905. Age 33 and newly married, Mannon was an affable miner from California. He was dispatched 85 miles south of Tonopah, NV, in response to increasing disturbances in the Bullfrog district. The day after he arrived, he got on the trail of two highwaymen who had held up five workers in a wood camp. During an altercation with the fugitives, Mannon was mortally wounded. For days a posse scoured the countryside looking for his assailant while the young deputy fought to stay alive. On the morning of April 5, 1905, exactly one year before Sheriff Logan would also be killed in the line of duty, Deputy Harry Mannon died. His killer, Frank Crouch, was never caught.

Jackie Boor, Author
Great-granddaughter of Sheriff Tom Logan

August 13, 2014

Another year has passed and you are still admired and respectfully remembered in the hearts and minds of so many. My thoughts and prayers are with your loved ones and friends on this anniversary of your EOW. You will never be forgotten.

James Sheppard
Father of Sgt. Jason L. Sheppard EOW 12/7/06

April 5, 2010

YOU ARE REMEMBERED TODAY AND THANK YOU SIR FOR YOUR SERVICE

Pat Van Den Berghe
MANCHESTER, NH

April 7, 2008

You shall never be forgotten. Rest in peace Sir.

a citizen

March 24, 2005

Deputy Sheriff Mannon,
It has taken nearly 100 years, but you are finally being honored. I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of Nye County.

R.I.P.
Anonymous

March 24, 2005