Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday - James Wiseman


JAMES WISEMAN
JAN                                    
1759                                      
 [Inside Medallion reads:
JAMES WISEMAN
A SOLDIER OF
THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION"]

James Wiseman was born January 1759 in Berks County, Pennsylvania to Isaac Wiseman [1700-1779] and Mary Marshall [1721 - 1790]. It is believed that he married a woman named "Lydia" about 1783, and the couple had twelve children.

According to the stone marking his grave, he was a soldier in the American Revolution.

He is buried at Reyburn Cemetery...

...Peru, Miami, Indiana

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