CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF JOHN WISEMAN ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== CEDAR COUNTY NEWS May 6, 1926 JOHN WISEMAN DIES AT HOME OF SISTER WAS TO UNVEIL MONUMENT IN HONOR OF FATHER ON JUNE 1ST John Wiseman, only living son of Henson Wiseman, whose family was massacred by the Indians in the pioneer days of Cedar County, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Laura Lawson in Wynot on Sunday. He was 88 years old. His death came shortly before he was to unveil the monument which is now being erected by the Wynot Womens Club in honor of Henson Wiseman, his father, the oldest Cedar County resident. John Wiseman was in the Union army during the Civil war but most of the action seen by him was when he was with his father in the Dakotas, during the Indian troubles. He came here from West Virginia. John Wiseman was the oldest son in the family. The monument to his father was to be unveiled on June 1. A program had been planned in which he was to take part. It is be erected on the spot where his mother, brothers, and sister were massacred. Funeral services were held this week at Wynot. R.J. Millard, W.H. Stephenson, W.F. Bryant, and P.F. O'Gara attended the services from Hartington.