CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - WISEMAN RELICS PRESENTED TO STATE
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Wynot Tribune January 14, 1926

RELICS OF WISEMAN PRESENTED TO STATE
JUDGE RADKE GIVES RIFLE AND POWDER HORN OF FAMOUS PIONEER

Among the treasured possessions of the Nebraska Historical Society now 
are some relics of the early days in Cedar county as the rifle and 
powder horn of Henson Wiseman whose family was massacred by the Indians 
here in the early days, were presented to the society at its forty-
ninth annual meeting by Judge F.c. Radke of Tecumseh last Tuesday 
morning.

Judge Radke is a former resident of Cedar County, and has had the 
Wiseman relics in his possession for some time. As the Wiseman massacre 
story is well known over the state, the presentation of the rifle and 
powder horn formerly owned by Mr. Wiseman, and which he probably used 
in avenging the massacre, is greatly appreciated by the historical 
society.

The story of the massacre has often been told. While Mr. Wiseman was 
away from home serving in the army, and Mrs. Wiseman was also gone for 
the day, Indians visited the home and killed several children. The news 
of the massacre eventually reached Mr. Wiseman, who returned home and 
started a private warfare against the Indians. He is credited with 
having killed numberless Indians as he shot at every one he saw. 
Consequently, his home was given wide berth by Indians passing through 
the country. 

Among other historical relics presented to the Nebraska State Historical 
Society at the meeting Tuesday were the Spanish sword of Cornado or 
Viliasur, the late Dr. J.A. Williams collection of the Missouri and 
Mississippi river steamboat photographs, and the Zimmerman-Remsbulg 
Stone Age collection of southeastern Nebraska.


NOTE:  THE WYNOT TRIBUNE CEASED OPERATIONS IN THE LATE 1930s.