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