CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - WISEMAN MEMORIAL DEDICATED SOON
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WYNOT TRIBUNE APRIL 22, 1926

WISEMAN MEMORIAL DEDICATED SOON
JOHN WISEMAN, BROTHER OF HENSON, WILL UNVEIL MONUMENT

John Wiseman, brother of Henson Wiseman, whose children were massacred 
by the Indians, will unveil the monument which the women of the Wynot 
Country Club  have purchased as a memorial to the oldest settler of 
Cedar County.  The unveiling and dedicatory services will be held about 
the 1st of June.

The monument will be placed on the spot where the children were 
massacred and will have the names and ages of the children and those of 
Mr. and Mrs. Wiseman.

Being hewn of gray granite the monument will have a rough surface 
except for the face on which the inscriptions will be placed. It is seven 
feet high, three and one half feet wide and 18 inches thick, weighs 5,200 
pounds and will cost $500.00.  Around the monument will be placed at a 
distance of about four feet an iron fence set in a concrete base and a 
concrete walk will lead to the road.  Behind the monument stand two trees 
a locust and cottonwood which Henson Wiseman planted on his homestead. 
These will be safeguarded as living monuments. The plot is 35 feet wide 
and 130 feet long and was donated by Theodore Beste of Hartington who 
owns the land on which the monument is being erected.

Mrs. J G Campbell, who is the president of the country club at Wynot,
Mrs. H.L. Sprinkle, Mrs. J. Warnock, Mrs. H.A. McCormick Sr., Mrs. Ben 
Heil, Mrs. G.A. Snowe, Mrs. Ludwig Olson, Mrs. Geo Gowery, and Mrs. Tess 
Ferber were in Hartington Wednesday soliciting donations for the memorial 
and were enterTained for supper at the home of Mrs. Tom Denny.


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