Russian Wiseleys?

No I have not discovered a family of Wiseley's that came from Russia. What I have found is an odd statistic concerning who reads this blog.
     I get a report of the countries from which people have accessed this blog. The results are sort of interesting and have raised some questions for me.
    Here are the current results of where people have viewed the blog.
Obviously most views are from the US with over 1300.  A person would think that Canada or Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland) would be the second highest .  But nope!   It is Russia!  Here then is the complete list.  You figure it out. I can't!
USA                 1327
Russia                 15
United Kingdom   12
Germany             10
Canada                  9
Latvia                    5
India                      4
Denmark                3
Finland                   2
Singapore              2


It has been very interesting to see where people are when they access this blog. I really have no explanation for what countries are here or how many times they have visited the site. It might just be one person from Russia that clicked on a bunch of times. Who knows?
    Just thought it might be interesting for you to see who is reading the blog besides yourself.
Look for the rest of the social security death index for Wisely and Wisley in a few more days.
Thanks again for reading.  I just wonder why Russians are looking at a Wiseley blog??? What is your explanation? Please leave comments here or send them to davidwiseley@gmail.com
Oh, if you like looking at great libraries visit my other blog at www.mylibrarycards.blogspot.com

Where did the Wiseleys wind up?

Hello, I am back.  Sorry to be gone for such a long time.  I have been busy trying to get the last yard work done before the white stuff ends yard work.  But I have not been idle with genealogy. Several people have contacted me about this blog and provided me with wonderful information. What do they get for helping me? 
      Well one fellow from north Chicago had kinfolk from Findlay, OH with photos of some of the old early settlers. About a week or two later a lady sent me an Email concerned that she was one of the last of her line. Her relatives came from Findlay as well and when I compared the information I realized they had the same Great Grandfather (or some other close relative?)  and they lived about 40 miles apart. And neither one knew the other one existed.  Those stories always make me feel good. 
       For today I want to explore where the Wiseley Clan is now (or was in the recent past) 
     Ancestry.com is running a 15 day free access (yes actually free) to some very limited databases. They reveal a new one everyday. You may want to check it out before Oct 15, 2011. (http://www.ancestry.com/anniversary?o_xid=49183&o_lid=49183&o_sch=Email)  When I say limited I mean limited.   For October 4th they opened the database of Bavarian and German World War One personnel... in German!  But other databases have been much more useful. 
       The first one was the Social Security Death index.  People who were in the Social Security database that died. The state they died in is listed, not where they were born or lived most of their lives, so we are dealing with retirement homes in some cases.  But I found the information interesting. I have summarized it below. The numbers behind the states are how many people who were named WISELEY were listed as having died in that state.  If 2 or 3 or more lived in the same area I have listed the city. If no city is listed it means only one or two came from any one city.  


As you can see there are only a few states with significant numbers of Wiseleys.


Michigan with 39, California with 37, Ohio - 25, Oklahoma - 16, Indiana - 15.   Etc
      These numbers seem astonishingly too low.  Even when you factor in this lists only Wiseley's (not Wisely or Wisley) and includes only those people reported to the SS admin, it still seems low. But no matter what is here is a great start.  

Alabama         none

Alaska              none

Arizona           6          Kingman, Benson, Tucson, Chandler

Arkansas        5          Benton, Bella Vista

California       37        No patterns

Colorado         None

Connecticut   None

Delaware        None

Florida            10        No patterns

Georgia          4          Glennville

Hawaii            None

Idaho              None

Illinois            12        Rockford, Sullivan, Decatur

Indiana           15        Logansport-Royal Center, Tippacanoe

Iowa               None

Kansas            4          Winfield

Kentucky       None

Louisiana       None

Maine             2

Maryland       None

Massachusetts          None

Michigan        39        Durand, Bancroft, Gaines, Swartz Creek. 

Minnesota      None

Mississippi     None

Missouri         9          Isabella, Purdy

Montana        2          Missoula

Nebraska       None

Nevada           1

New Hampshire  None       

New Jersey   4

New Mexico  2

New York      None

North Carolina          2

North Dakota            None

Ohio                25        Findlay, Toledo

Oklahoma      16        Tulsa

Oregon           1

Pennsylvania 10        Philadelphia

Rhode Island None

South Carolina  1

South Dakota    None          

Tennessee     3         Knoxville

Texas             8          Morton, San Antonio

Utah               None

Vermont        None

Virginia          8          Roanoke, Manassas

Washington   None

West Virginia None

Wisconsin       4          Chippewa Falls, Racine, Winter.

Wyoming       None

        
      I have all the names so if you think you know any wiseley in one of these states that lived in a city mentioned please contact me.  Look for the listing of Wisely and Wisley in a few days.  Next I want to share some of the family trees I have received from, Ohio, Oklahome, Washington DC, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and a couple other states that have slipped my mind. (OBS* is starting to take it's toll on me... )
     I also want to continue with my line and follow as many of the children and where they went for each generation as I am able to research.  It just gets more interesting with each new "revelation".      
      Again my apologies for the long absence. I will try my best to keep the information on the Wiseley family coming your way.
      Thanks again for reading my blog. 
David Wiseley   davidwiseley@gmail.com
* OBS is "Old Brain Syndrome"  perhaps you struggle with it from time to time as well.   
      Another of my favorite abbreviations is ESO - Equipment Smarter than Operator. 

Great Granny worked in the Wiseley store!

      In June I received a most welcome Email from Carrie. She is the great granddaughter of  Blanche Gertrude (Wiseley) Frederick, who was a daughter of Electious Wiseley.  I think we finally have it settled that Electious is really how he spelled his name. 
      The reason Carrie wrote me was because she had read this blog about the Wiseley store in Oakwood, Ohio and sent me the following information.
       Carrie said they had just started to go through the family "stuff" and found Electious bible, journals, photographs and a treasure trove of wonderful information. She was kind enough to send me the following information.
       
       Electious Wiseley married Mary Jane McCullough September 29, 1867.

Electious Wiseley was born April 20, 1844.

Mary Jane McCullough was born March 9, 1850

Their children were as follows:

Sanford Seymour                 August 28,1868
Artie Meckie                            August 3, 1870   ( She was also called Art and Artemesia)
Ada Ernestine                   March 23, 1873
Bertha Leona                    September 25, 1876
Loa Eugenia                             February 24, 1879
Vesta Velonia                   April 14, 1882
Blanche Gertrude                March 4, 1885   ( My great grandmother)
Clive Cliffton                          September 13, 1887

Deaths are listed as:

Sanford Seymour       August 23, 1869  ( difficult to read so may have died the day he was born or may have lived around one year)
Bertha Leona              June 18, 1883      ( says she lived 6 years, 8 months and 23 days)
 

During a recent trip to Springfield, IL I stopped at the marvelous new Allen County Library and found some of the following information related to Electious.  This obituary (sorry I was in such a rush I forgot to write the date...Duh!) lists the death of one of Electious brothers. This obit refers to Electious as Lechus of Oakwood, OH.  
    

From my own research I have found that Clive moved from Oakwood and died in South Bend, Indiana. 


      A big thank you to Carrie for sharing the information she sent me. I hope to meet her sometime and get some photos of the bible and related materials. This is really such a treasure. Just imagine all the photos, diaries, journals, and related information that is stashed away in boxes, bags, file drawers etc. If you have such a collection may I encourage you to go through some of it and make notes of who is in the photos, some info about who there are, names, dates, events, etc.  I am sure we all wish we would have taken the time to talk with relatives who are no longer with us. The stories they could tell!  Those that follow us may have the same desire for information. Please take time to leave them some clues. They will love you even more for it. 
      When i visited President Garfield's home near Cleveland, OH I learned that Mrs Garfield spent years going through letters and paperwork to explain who the people were that were mentioned in letters, and leaving other pertinent information. Her husband was only in office 200 days and she wanted the memory of him to be complete and accurate. Historians today could just hug that woman. 
     Again thank you for reading this blog. Please send me any information you may have on any Wiseley, Wisely, Wisly that would be hard to find in a database somewhere.  Again thanks to all who have already generously shared their family information with me. Every clue helps to add to a clearer picture of who we are and where we came from.


     

Wiseley's in the news....but who are they?

      Gentle reader, please accept my apologies for not posting as often as I wanted to and said I would. Summer activities and some research trips made it impossible.  I will try to do better.
      Now onto this weeks blog.  I was looking through some of the 18,000 pictures of documents and such that I have and found some little gems. I do not know if i am related to any of these Wiseley's. I hope you are and can help me get these people connected to a Wiseley family group.  Some of these are recent...well genealogically speaking 30 years is recent. Others are a little older, but because they were newspaper articles perhaps you have heard of stories in your family about some of these.
      Lets start with Dr. A N Wiseley in the year 1945. The local Lima paper was reporting on a special school board meeting that Several board members did not attend. Sounds like people were riled up over something.
     Here is the clipping that appeared in the Lima OH news Friday nov 16, 1945.    

               was requested Friday morning by a group of interested citizens after a quorum of the Lima Board of Education failed to attend a scheduled special meeting in Central high school Thursday night. E. L. Baker, A. M. Gantz and Dr. A. N. Wiseley were not present at the special meeting and the other two members, President Frank H. Smith and Clerk T. Carl Jansen, explained to 34 citizens who were present for the meeting that the board

     
       
        And from the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Republican dated Tuesday April 27th, 1926 is another little mystery.  
       

in the Alaskan, smaller of the ex- pedition's two planes. Sergt. C. M. Wiseley . who piloted the Detroiter when it made its start Monday, said that after a. flight which took the plane north of the Tukon river one of the mo- tors began performing badly and trouble develop

 

         Flying a plane in 1926, in Alaska no less and "...north of the Tukon River...   I have no idea where that was but the idea of flying in Alaska in 1926 brings to mind Sgt Preston and his wonder dog "King".  I wonder who this wiseley was. I hope someone knows about this early pilot and his Alaskan adventures.

      Then to some bad news.  In 1985 a Bill Wiseley of Stillwater, OK was killed in a truck accident in Arkansas.  The Stillwater Democrat Journal reported on Thursday July 4th 1985 the following

     Must be he swam to shore and then died.  I hope with all the Wiseley's in OK and TX that someone knew Bill and can fill us in on how he was related to other Wiseley's.

     I don't know about you but I keep getting surprised at all the Wiseley's that are out there. I keep finding more people who are my 4th or 5th cousins.  I guess that is what part of the fun of Genealogy is all about. 

       I have been searching my records for a copy of William's will.  It is recorded in Gettysburg, PA and it lists several very important pieces of information. As soon as it is found I will of course share it with you.
      Please let me know if you have any information about the "mystery" Wiseleys in these newspaper scraps I found somewhere.

    Thanks for reading.
    

Stilwell Drivers Killed in Accident Two Stilwell Foods, Inc., truck drivers died in a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 40 near Conway, Ark., Friday morning. They were Herndon Harrison Harris, 56, Bunch; and William Gene (Bill) Wiseley , 57, Stilwell. The Arkansas State police said the men's tractor-trailer rig ran off the highway, hit a guardrail and went down an enbankment into the Cadron Creek. Wiseley swam to shor

June 7, 1779 - Where in the #%&$ is Francis Wiseley?

    Colonel Thomas Taylor noted that Francis Wiseley had missed the militia meeting - again. The colonel was in charge of the Edgemont Company Militia of  Chester County Pennsylvania. His June 7, 1779 report would show that Francis Wiseley had not attended the required militia meeting...again. But that was not a new thing with Francis. Nor would it be the last time he "skipped' the required militia meetings.
     Francis is one of the earliest ancestors we know much about, other than his brother John. John Wiseley moved to Lancaster Ohio about 1800 and is the same John many of us share as a great great etc Grandfather, which makes Francis one of our great great etc Uncles.
      Francis never married. There is no mention of wife or children anywhere. Not in wills or any other document that we have concerning him.  We do know that he was listed as a freeman (not indentured servant) and worked as a tanner. But in the lists of Single men of 1765 it lists only William Wiseley, brother to Francis and John. Francis may have been too young to list or was not living in the same area as William. William was also a bachelor. At least he does not mention a wife or children in his will but does leave money to John's kids and his step brother's children.   
     But back to the militia and why Francis skipped the meetings. Pennsylvania responded to George Washington's 1776 call for militia units to be established in the colonies. On March 17, 1777 the Pennsylvania assembly passed an act that required every able bodied man between 18 and 53 to serve in local militias. There were some exemptions for special occupations and usually apprentices and indentured servants did not have to serve. But everyone else did, and Francis Wiseley was not exempt.
      The act also specified a fine of 3 pounds 10 Shillings for failure to attend militia meetings. Perhaps this is a good place to talk about British money and the pound, shilling and pence used during colonial days. There is some confusion about money in the colonial days as I have seen the fine for Frances reported as $3.10, instead of  £3.10
     The pound was a considerable amount in colonial days. £60 being about a years wages for common folks according to some historians.  Whatever it's value it was considerably more than the same in dollars and cents. There were 20 shillings to a pound and 12 pence to a shilling. So a pound has 240 pence. The odd number has some basis as there was a time when 240 pence coins weighed a pound.  Several British slang terms are associated with the old monetary system; bob, quid, ha-penny, and others. Currently the pound is approximately worth $1.50 and fluctuates between $1.25 and $1.75   In the early 1900's it was closer to $5 and has changed drastically over the centuries.  If interested you can find more about the British pound online.
      Back to Francis and his militia fines.  The 1779 fine with Colonel Thomas Taylor was listed as £31.10.0 (31 pounds, 10 shillings, 0 pence)  That seems like a huge sum and may have been just a copy error considering the fine was £3.10.0  for missing a meeting and some militia only met once a year.  This fine was for missing a meeting with the Chester county - Edgemont company.
     Francis may have moved during 1779 as he also has a fine of £10.2.52 for missing the militia meeting of the Chester County, 6th Battalion, 3rd Company. Whether he moved or not he did get two militia fines in 1779
     In 1780 he is listed as being in Chester County- 7th Battalion - 2nd Company. His fine was left blank.
      In 1782 he was back in the Edgemont company under Capt Calvert. He is listed as a private and his fine was £2.16.0
      Why did Francis miss so many militia meetings?  A book entitled 'Early Church Records of Deleware  County' (PA) may have the answer.

Francis was a Quaker! (Friends) No wonder he missed militia meetings!


 Well what do we know about Francis?  A few years ago I did not even know he existed for sure.  I saw his name in family trees but had no other evidence he existed, and no way to tie him to my line of Wiseley's.  The next time I was in Ft Wayne, Indiana at the Allen County Library I decided to spend some time searching for Francis. It took about three days because I did not know where he lived, if he was married, where he was buried, etc etc.  Then I discovered a reference to a Francis Wiseley in a Friends Magazine from 1835.  The Allen County Library had the magazine bound and on their shelves.         

Finally I knew where Francis had lived. Delaware County, PA. I also knew he must be a member of the Friends (Quakers) movement, as his obituary appeared in their magazine. I was a little concerned that they gave the barest, most minimal obituary possible. The obituary of the woman listed above his had a much more distinctive write up. What was I to make of that?  Was she a real mover and shaker (no pun intended) in Quaker circles?  Was Francis not held in good esteem in the Friends moveent? Or was there some other cause for the differance in the obituaries. Perhaps obituary space was purchased in the magazine?  Just makes me wonder. 
     My next search was in the history of Delaware county.  It didn't take long to learn some very interesting things about Francis and the history of the area. 

From "History of Delaware County, PA" by H G Ashmead -1884

          Abraham Sharpless and Francis were friends and business partners from before 1800 until Francis died in 1835.  After that Abraham sold his business within the next year. I read several histories that seemed to have conflicting dates until I realized that Abraham purchased a forge and operated the forge for a short time then moved on to other businesses near the original forge. The different dates refer to different business interests. 

    And from another history we read this additional information

The important information we can glean here is the name of the forge. In 1776 it became known as the Sarum Forge. Also Abraham operated several businesses, which he sold in 1836 to Willcox. 

It takes a little study to understand all that is happening in these histories. First Francis was connected with Abraham Sharpless long before 1807.  That was when Francis was connected to the mills in the upper seat. Marcus Hook was a port on Delaware Bay about 9 miles south of Glen Mills, just a few miles west of Philadelphia.

 
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Francis Wiseley signed several wills as a witness. 
In 1812 he was a witness on the will of Marsha Sharpless. 
In 1792 he was a witness on Abraham Hoopes will. Hoopes ws the Elder of the Edgemont meeting, which indicates Francis must have been in good standing with the Friends at that time. 
In 1816 he was a witness to Catherine Sharpless will, the wife of Abraham Sharpless. 
    In the following will we learn another interesting piece of information about Francis.  Study it a little (where my finger is pointing) before scrolling down to what I noticed. What do you find interesting here? 

The above shows Francis could not write. He signed with a mark.  In all the wills his signature is in the hand of the clerk who drew up the will, but this one is the only one that mentions his mark.  


    Now that we have learned  Francis Wiseley did live and work in Delaware county the question remains? Was he kinfolk?   
    In order to get this posted I will let that question remain unanswered. (Ok if you must know yes he is kinfolk..I will show the documentation later. (See May 2012 )  
    

     Again thank you for reading my blog and I do apologize for not posting the last couple weeks.  This one took a little more time to research than I had to spare. 

Lancaster Wiseley - Bright Cemetery

To find Bright cemetery go downtown Findlay and take E Sandusky St. (Rte 568 or Carey Rd) east a few miles. The actual cemetery is off the road about 1/4 mile or more on the north side of the road.



Look closely and you can see the headstones
in the distance just above the entrance marker.

  In this weeks blog we will follow the "William" line. John Wiseley came to the Lancaster Ohio area about 1800.  He most likely traveled on the new Zane's Trace which ran from Wheeling across the southeastern part of Ohio. The trace was little more than an area where the trees had been cut down in a wide path through the woods.  It was quickly completed in 1796-97. More on the trace and other means of transportation available to settlers in a future blog.

     John had 5 children, William, James, Edward, George and Ann. It is William and one of his descendants we wish to look at this week.
      William was the first child of John and Mary Ann Wiseley. He was born in Pennsylvania about 1780 in or near York County. He most likely was named after his Uncle William, John's brother, who would remain a bachelor and live his entire life in York Springs.


Look for these attractive stone structures
that mark the entrance to Bright cemetery



        John's son William married Rachel Thomlinson, Leah's sister, in Fairfield County, Ohio, 1801. They had a couple of girls and within 5 years Rachel died. William next married Sarah Cole and they had 9 children.  One of the youngest girls was named Rachel, the same as William's first wife.  The oldest boy was named Allen.

        A side note. When you read of an Allen Wiseley be aware that there were dozens and dozens of people named Allen Wiseley. I once received a letter from a direct decendant of  the Allen we just mentioned and his name was ....ready for this.....Allen Wiseley V (the fifth)   Yes every generation named at least one kid Allen for five generations. Talk about making genealogy work harder! 
       Anyway, we are dealing with Allen son of William, grandson of John.  He would settle 120 miles north of Fairfield county in a wilderness that became Findlay, Ohio. There is a lot of information about Allen which should be in a future blog. He was very much involved in business, education, farming etc. At one time he owned 3000 acres of prime farmland.  His descendants still cover the part of Ohio south of Toledo and around Findlay.

      For several years there was a Bright-Wiseley reunion in Findlay. The two families had a joint reunion because the they were so often connected in marriage. Allen married Ameliah Bright, daughter of Major Bright. (That was his name..not his rank!)  All three of them are buried in Bright cemetery just east of Findlay OH.
   Allen and Amelia have a unique combined stone. The two sides are connected with an arch on which are written "father" and Mother"  The two pillars
have their individual information.
There are several other headstones of interest to people doing genealogy. I have them pictured below.










Allen (20 Feb 1809 - 25 April 1888
and Amelia Wiseley (20 Feb 1809 - 9 Dec 1878)



Close up of both side of the arched stone above. Birth dates are correct. Both were born on the same day!

 
 



Keziah Wiseley
Dau of A.M. & M.M.
age 19Y 5M 27D

   Note the stone to the right of Keziah. It is Amos, her father. Not shown is her mother. Both stones are shown below.  The addition of "dau of.." helps to identify them.

 

 Below find the stone of Major Bright -senior.

One of several Bright tombstones in this cemetery.

An overview of the Bright cemetery with
the location of some of the Wiseleys
who are buried here.

    

    

Lancaster Wiseley - Coffman cemetery.

I know where John Wiseley is buried. I don't know where John Wiseley is buried. WHAT???  Actually both statements are true.  Let me explain.



But first some background to help you know what we are discussing in this weeks blog. In the "Lancaster line" one of the earliest ancestor we have documentation on is John Wiseley. He arrived in Lancaster, OH around 1800 with others who had traveled from near Lancaster, PA. As we have mentioned before he had five children, William, Edward, James, George and Ann. Edward married Leah and had about 15 kids. ("About 15" because after 12 you lose count!)

Joseph was one of Leah's brothers
Don't read too much into the word Consort.
They were married!

Leah Wiseley

    The headstone above is in Coffman cemetery.
John Wiseley (also buried in Coffman) was the father of  Edward Wiseley. Edward married Leah Tomlinson, brother to the Joseph shown above.  Speaking of Leah I found her stone in the back of Coffman cemetery near Carroll, Ohio. Carroll is a small town about 6 or 7 miles northwest of Lancaster, Ohio.  Leah's headstone looks like it may be in the original burial spot. That is not the case with most of the stones in this cemetery. At one time they had been in a couple of piles, neatly stacked in one place. I have no idea why, other than they may have fallen over and the care takers just gathered them. Your guess is as good as mine.

 I think it was Sharon Wiseley from Oregon that convinced the caretakers to unpile and replace the stones. When I visited this cemetery the first time in about 2003 the headstones that had been stacked were arranged in a couple of rows. They were standing up but obviously not in their original place.
     Notice the odd dating on Leah's stone. No birth date is given. Many headstones from this time period do not give the date of birth. 
     The Julian calender (named for Julius Caesar) had been in place since 54 BC. It was 11 minutes off from the solar year or 3 days off every 400 years. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII ordered the Julian Calendar be replaced with the Gregorian calendar. It was 10 days off the solar year and affected when Easter was celebrated.
     Protestant countries were less than enthusiastic to adopt the Pope's new Catholic calendar. It took England 170 years to get on board. England did not switch until Wednesday, September 2, 1752. By that time there was a difference of 11 days on the calendar between London and Paris. On Wednesday night all England (and the colonies) went to bed on Wednesday September 2, and woke the next morning on Thursday September 14!
     So anyone born before September 1752 and dated after then would have a birth date that was 11 days off, unless they had used the old system which would not have matched the dates under the new calendar. It was just too confusing so for about the next hundred years tombstones stated when a person died and then gave you years, months and days they had lived, instead of the confusion of birth dates. (Confused?  So were they!) 

 OK Back to Coffman Cemetery. The picture to the left shows one of several Coffman headstones. This cemetery was not like the ones today where people are buried next to total strangers. All the people of the same generation knew one another and most of these were friends and many were related by marriage. Unfortunately many of the stones are too far gone to read what information they contain. But we can still learn from the style and shape of the stones. Look at the one below for example. See the fine detail that is still visible. This is William Wiseley's headstone.  Edward's brother.

Deteriorating Headstone of William Wiseley

Probably Edward's stone. 
Note the similar style.

If you look closely you will see this was the daughter of Edward and Leah.  "Daut. of E. & L,"  Note the spelling of Wisely here. Go back to Leah's headstone and see that Edward Wiseley is spelled differently.  If you recall in another blog I showed Leah had her name spelled three different ways on documents. Look at the date on this headstone and tell me when she was born. I can't figure it out in my head either.    

This stone has very little that can be read. But it still contains some clues. Look at some of the previous known heastones and you will see this is the same pattern and style of marker. Also look in the background. The house is almost the same in both pictures where it shows. That indicates these stones were in the same area. You can just make out Wiseley, but the first name is gone.  Perhaps this is the John that came here from Pennsylvania?  Or George or James.  When I research them I may find they were buried somewhere else, in which case that would make this most likely John's headstone, and one of the earliest I have found.

My wife with her hand on Leah's stone.
The brown headstones to her left are other Wiseley markers.
They seem to be in their original places.

Taken from the road at the front of Coffman cemetery
Note the row of stones that have just been stood up.
My wife is in the background near Leah's stone.

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Looking East across the pleasant valley
Carroll, OH is in the distance.

If you are in the Ohio area and related to the Lancaster Wiseley's you should take the few minutes to drive to this lovely, if somewhat neglected cemetary. 

DIRECTIONS: Take 33 out of Columbus to Carroll, OH, a few miles north of Lancaster. Turn west onto Winchester road. In about 1/2 mile look for Kaufman Rd on the left. In about 1/2 mile you will T with Brandt Rd. Turn right (up the hill) and drive to Hope Drive. Or if you have a GPS set it for 3944 Hope Dr NW, Carroll, OH 43112

Intersection of Hope and Brandt rd.

Looking east. You can just see Carroll.

I have several more photos of headstones from this cemetery. If anyone is interested please contact me and i will Email them to you. Or if any picture here is of interest i will be glad to share them with you. 
    It was sad to see so many stones of young children here. Life was difficult for these people. But the Scotch-Irish were strong people with pioneering hearts. The values they brought to this country are slowly disappearing. Please take time to read about the Scotch-Irish on line or get a book from your library. Your children need to know their ancestors were hard working, freedom loving, independant and self reliant people. 
      Now with no further comment I leave you with some more photos of Coffman.  Check back next week for my next blog. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.  Email me at davidwiseley@gmail.com

Childs marker??  Is this a Wiseley?
No other names starting with W in this cemetery??

Sleep my babies - take your rest.