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Note: Hazzard's History of Henry County, pg 257: He was a private in the same
company and regiment as Philander, Company B, 8th Indiana Infantry. He
was present and received from Philander his dying words, "Tell mother I am
willing to die and feel that all is well." Mr. Brattain returned home where he
remained until 8 August 1862, when he was commissioned Second
Lieutenant of Company H, 69th Indiana Infantry.

Event: Type: Fact
Place: based on Gideon Tibbets Ridlon's 1907 book

Death: 1907 Indiana

Reference: 1778

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Wisehart, Willis (b. 22 AUG 1836, d. 18 SEP 1908)

Note: Title: Biography of Henry C. Wise
Source: Biography of Henry County, Indiana
Publication Date: 1920
Article: COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY
Of Henry County, Indiana
B.F. Bowen
1920
Page 343, 344,

Surnames in this biography are: Wise, Bouch, Cooper, Dykes, Mills, Wisehart, Diefenbach,
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Mr. Wise married Miss Fannie Mills, a daughter of Luther Mills, of Delaware County, his home being located two and a half miles north west of Middletown, but who in the spring of 1882 came to town to reside permanently. Mr. Wise continued contracting until 1890, but in 1888 had purchased eighty acres of farmland for four thousand dollars, forty acres of which had been placed under cultivation, but upon which there were no buildings. Mr. Wise settled on the old place in 1889 and at once began making the necessary improvements to make the farm a profitable and comfortable one to live upon, clearing up the unimproved part, laying about two hundred rods of tiling and erecting modem and substantial buildings, his barn being 36x87 feet, with basement. He feeds stock chiefly and ships two to three carloads of cattle of his own feeding and about one hundred hogs per year. He also handles stock in company with Willis Wisehart, and employs two men during the busy season.

Occupation: Place: Stock man

Death: 18 SEP 1908 Middletown, Henry County, Indiana

Burial: Miller Cemetery, Henry County, Indiana

Reference: 1779

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Fall Creek Twp., Henry Co., Indiana

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Smith, Elmira A. (b. 1 JAN 1842, d. 13 APR 1911)

Death: 13 APR 1911 Middletown, Henry County, Indiana

Burial: Miller Cemetery, Henry County, Indiana

Reference: 1780

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Wisehart, Philander O. (b. 29 DEC 1837, d. 11 JUL 1861)

Note: Hazzard's History of Henry County, pg 257: "... Summer and going to school
in Winter, until the beginning of the Civil War, when he immediately offered
his services to his country, enlisting in what became Company B, 8th Indiana
Infantry (three months), and was mustered into the service of the United
States , as a private, April 25, 1861. In the battle of Rich Mountain, West
Virginia, July 11, 1861, he was killed, being the first soldier from Henry
County to lose his life in the Civil War. His remains were buried on the
battlefield and the grave marked by his comrades, in such a permanent way,
that it could be identified when the time came for the Government to
undertake the gathering of the remains of its soldiers dead from the
scattered battlefields of the war and the placing of them in National
Cemeteries. To this is owing the fact that the remains of Philander Wisehart
have been re-interred with reverent care in Grave No. 655, in the National
Cemetery at Grafton, West Virginia. He was an exemplary young man, highly
respected and gave promise of a long and useful life. Alas! cut down in the
flush of early manhood, in the titanic struggle of the Civil War. It has always
been attested by his surviving comrades in arms that he was an ideal soldier,
patient in camp, enduring on the march and brave in battle."

Death: 11 JUL 1861

Burial: 14 OCT 1867 re buried at Grafton National Cemetery at Grafton, WV, Plot: E 0 655

Reference: 1781

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Wisehart, Nelson (b. 29 JUN 1839, d. 10 JUN 1930)

Death: 10 JUN 1930 Fall Creek Twp., Henry Co., IN

Burial: Mechanicsburg Cem., Mechanicsburg, Henry, IN

Reference: 1782

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McCarty, Nancy (b. 26 NOV 1843, d. 3 AUG 1927)

Death: 3 AUG 1927

Burial: Mechanicsburg Cem., Mechanicsburg, Henry, IN

Reference: 1783

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Wisehart, George (b. 1841, d. BEF 1850)

Death: BEF 1850

Reference: 1784

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Wisehart, Richmond (b. 23 MAR 1843, d. ?)

Note: Richmond Wisehart is written up in a Compendium of Biography (Henry Co,
Indiana) pages 687-690.
Richmond Wisehart was born in Fall Creek township, Henry county, IN, 23
March 1843, his birthplace was a log cabin on a farm. His parents were
James and Sarah Fowler Wisehart, the former of whom was born in V A and
was a son of Thomas Wisehart, who was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. About
1833 James brought his family to IN and for about ten years made his home
in Wayne county, whence he came to Henry county and located in the
northeast part of Madison township.

Thomas Wisehart was a genuine frontiersman and was equipped with the
usual hunting-dress of the period, with knife, rifle, powder-horn, etc., and
died when his grandson Richmond was about seven years old. Thomas was
possessed of marked mental characteristics, which were inherited by his
sons, Reuben, Andrew, William, John, Samuel, Willis and James, and also
strongly impressed the grandson, Richmond. William and Andrew were
workers in brick, and James, father of Richmond, operated a brick kiln, all in
Henry county. Some of the brick made by James are still in use in New
Castle.

William Wisehart, now about seventy years of age, is a resident of
Mechanicsburg, and is honored as a veteran of the Civil War.
James married Miss Fowler before he came to Henry county. This lady was
a native of New England and was noted for her amiable disposition. On
arriving in Henry county, James purchased a track of heavily timbered land
in Fall Creek township at the government price of one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre, and at his death owned two hundred acres of cleared land.
He early engaged in breeding live stock, which he drove to Cincinnati, selling
from three hundred to five hundred head at a time, his son Richmond often
accompanying him on this trips. He was a justice of the peace in Fall Creek
township for several years. He eventually removed to Middletown, this
county, where he continued to handle stock . In his early manhood, James
was a Democrat in politics, but on the organization of the Republican party
joined its ranks and took an active part in the support of the Union. His
death occurred in 1868, in his fifty-eighth year, in the faith of the Methodist
Episcopal church, of which he was one of the original members of the
congregation at Mechanicsburg and a substantial pillar, and in that city his
remains were interred. His widow, Sarah, survived him until about 1882,
when she died in the same faith at the age of seventy years, and both were
among the most highly respected residents of Middletown during the time
they lived in that city. They had a family of five sons and seven daughters,
all of whom reached years of maturity, and all save four are still living and
residing in this county, excepting one, Jackson, who lives in Fitzgerald,
Georgia.

Richmond Wisehart was educated in the common schools and remained at
home with his parents until he enlisted in October, 1861, in Company F, Fifty
seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. This regiment wintered at Louisville,
Kentucky, and I the spring of 1862 took part in the battles of Pittsburgh
Landing and Shiloh, Tennessee, being with Gens. Buell and Rosecraus in all
their engagements. The regiment fought in the first battle at Stone River and
all through southern Tennessee. After Chattanooga, which it was the first to
enter, the regiment veteranized at Strawberry Plains. In the charge at
Missionary Ridge it was led by General Sheridan in front of Bragg's
headquarters and lost less than seventy-five men out of four hundred. The
regiment fought at Chickamuga and Lookout Mountain and at Knoxville, and
followed Longstreet to the mountains. Richmond was granted a thirty-day
furlough home and at its expiration joined Sherman in the Atlanta campaign.
At Resaca Col. George W. Leonard, of New Castle, Indiana

Richmond served 4 years, 2 months, 2nd Lieutenant, wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 27,
1864
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Our post now numbers thirty-seven soldiers who were honorably discharged from the United States service during the late war of the rebellion, and we hold our regular meetings on Wednesday nights, at half past six sharp. We have now several applications of soldiers awaiting muster at future meetings. The objective of our association is to see that no soldier shall be in a suffering condition for the necessaries of life, also, to attend to the obsequies at the death of any soldier in our midst, and to extend the hand of charity in all cases necessary. We invite all ex-soldiers who were honorably discharged from the service, to unite with us, as the time is rapidly speeding by and soon but a few of us will remain to relate the incidents of a soldier's life. Our organization is not of political nature, and while in the order we all join together in looking after the interest of deserving soldiers and the families of soldiers of the late war.
It is our duty to protect the interest of deserving soldiers, and if we fail to guard such interest with a watchful eye, the time will not be far distant when a strong current of public sentiment will be pitted against the ex-soldiers, and they will be compelled to hesitate and reflect in their own minds whether it is not a disgrace, instead of an honor, to have been a veteran soldier. Boys, let us boldly march to the front and never hesitate to respect the men who stood gallantly during the dreadful war in defense of our proud banner. By the gallantry of the soldier boys the curse of slavery was driven from the land, the Union was saved and the results are peace and prosperity.

Richmond Wisehart
January 28, 1883