Odd Tidbits Of News About Wiseleys -1

Today we will look at some odd stories of people named Wiseley who must be from your line...as i won't claim them in mine. One of the oddest was stumbled upon in an archived copy of an Iowa newspaper named New Era from a town named Humeston. I checked and yes there is actually a town with that name in Iowa. It is about 50 miles south of Des Moines and is small enough to need only 5 or 6 streets for the whole village.
    I was unable to find any date but articles that appeared on the archived page seem to place it after 1880  ..."Worst storm since 1880..."  and around 1896 "...unpaid taxes for 1896..."  which is consistant with the stories it contains about people being kicked by horses.
    The first story is about Q.H. Wiseley, a name I have yet to identify with any family. Here is the clipping from the New Era paper. 

 This short clipping raises all kinds of questions.  Why would he have gotten married and then killed himself?  Was the bride pregnant and he was overcome with shame? Who was the prominant farmer? It just seems odd.

    Papers from around that time period often just reproduced news items that had appeared in other papers. They needed to find items that would interst their readers and sell papers. So they just gathered some oddities from wherever they could and published them.

      Here is another clipping from the same page. This one made me stop and ask another question.

      How did this Mr Webber shoot himself in the head seven times?  This sounds almost like some of the super market tabloids that contain unimaginable fiction that is reported as factual events.  Was the New Era paper a precursor to the modern day tabloid? Strange things happen, but is this fact or fiction?  Maybe someone else put 7 bullets into Mr Webber's head and the local sheriff came along and declared "Worst case of suicide i ever saw!"  Which leaves me with the question of Who was Q H Wiseley, and are there any more like him in your family?

     Then, from Placerville, California, there is the Aug 27th, 1859 account in The Mountain Democrat of a Elder Wiseley, pastor of a local church who was away from home, leaving his youthful and attractive wife home alone. Some one sent a letter to one of the Deacons of Wiseley's church telling of Mrs Wiseley and some suspected infidelity. The article explains that Deacon Brown was an old gentleman who was a stern man. He saw moral depravity everywhere and would speak out against it fearlessly. Even if it meant confronting the pastors wife about her infidelity.  The copy may be hard to read but I think you will be able to figure out what the facts are in this, another Wiseley oddity.  

   Sorry to do that to you but i found it an interesting oddity of the time period.  More oddities to come in future blogs.