PIONEER LADY CALLED TO REST

Came To County In 1864. Graduated From Blair High School In 1880. Taught School In The County.

ACTIVE IN CHURCH WORK

Miss Carrie Wiseman, aged 70 years, passed away at the home of her sister, Mrs. Don C. Van Deusen, at 1:30 a.m. Monday after a prolonged illness of ten weeks’ duration.

Deceased was born in Salem, Indiana April 27, 1865, and when she was 11 months of age, the parents came to this county where they settled on a farm near Ft. Calhoun, later moving to Blair in 1876.

The father, in company with the late John McQuarrie, was for years in the lumber business under the firm name of McQuarrie and Wiseman. The business is now known as the Christensen Lumber co.

Miss Wiseman was educated in the Blair schools, and graduated from the institution with the class of 1880. Shortly after her graduation she taught the Bono school, and for a long term of years kept books in the lumber yard.

She never married, but her life was well rounded out. She busied herself with church and club work, and was for over twenty years the treasurer for the Congregational church, and for nearly that length of time also served as organist. She was a member of the Ladies Social Union of the Congregational church, and was deeply interested in the work of the Monday Afternoon Club.

Her life was one of devotion to her church and to the higher ideals of life, and to those who knew her she was held in the highest esteem. So ends a life well spent and an example well worthy of emulation.

The funeral services were held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. from the Congregational church with Rev. A. F. Newell officiating, and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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