OBIT: Jeremiah WISLER, 1929, Mummasburg, Adams County, PA

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BLIND RESIDENT OF COUNTY DIES OF INFIRMITIES

Jeremiah Wisler, 96,
Succumbs At Home
Of His Daughter
In Mummasburg.

HOLD FUNERAL
1 P.M. TUESDAY

Jeremiah Wisler, one of the oldest residents of Adams county, died at the home 
of his daughter, Mrs. Florence Wilson, Mummasburg, Saturday evening at 9:20 
o'clock.  He was 96 years of age.  Death was due to the infirmities of age.  For 
nine years he had been blind.

Despite his advanced age, Mr. Wisler had a remarkably clear memory and recalled 
events in Gettysburg and Adams county more than seventy-five years ago.  He 
spoke often of witnessing the first balloon ascension made in Gettysburg about 
80 years ago by John McClellan.

When Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the national cemetery here, Mr. 
Wisler was near the platform back of the speaker.  Last summer, he traced the 
genealogy of a family back to the eighteenth century for a woman who desired 
information in order to join the D. A. R.


Funeral Tuesday

Mr. Wisler was the last of a family of nine children of the late Henry and 
Salome Altland Wisler, and for many years he was a stone mason.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Florence Wilson and Miss Ida May Wisler, both 
of Mummasburg; a step-son, John D. Freed, Abilene, Kansas; two grandchildren, 
six great-grandchildren and two step-grandsons.

Brief funeral services at the Wilson home Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, with 
further services in the Mummasburg Mennonite church, the Rev. Mr. Group, East 
Berlin, and the Rev. Amos Myer, Mummasburg, officiating.  Interment at Fairview 
cemetery, Arendtsville.

Star and Sentinel, December 21, 1929, Page 3