Thursday, July 07, 2011

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

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