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Earnest died as a teenager of tuberculosis the same summer that his mother, Lucy ( Cottle) Munnings, also died of tuberculosis. The family story goes that they were cared for in a tent on the lawn of the farm house in Colbourne township that summer--both for fresh air and to quarantine them from the rest of the family.
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1902
Age 16
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