Submitted by Emily O'Neal

Rome News Tribune July 11, 1954

Mrs. Henry Wiseman Dies After Illness; Rites Held Today

Mrs. Henry J. Wiseman, 71, of Kingston, Route 1, died in a local hospital at 7:17 a.m. today following a stroke suffered last Monday. Although she had been in declining health the past several years, Mrs. Wiseman had been active until she suffered the stroke.
Mrs. Wiseman was born in Floyd County, June 23, 1883, daughter of the late John and Sarah Elizabeth Bryant Dodd and had spent her entire life here. She was a member of the Mizpah Methodist Church. Mrs. Wiseman was preceded in death by a brother, John Dodd, in 1948.
The former Josephine Dodd, she was married to Henry J. Wiseman, January 30, 1901, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Sid McLain and Mrs. Hoyt Ward, both of Kingston Route 1, seven sons, Horace and C. Wiseman, of Rome, Oscar of Kingston Route 1, Dewey and James of Rome Route 6, John of Rome Route 2, and Herman Wiseman of College Park; three half-sisters, Mrs. J. L. Bing of Silver Creek Route 1, Mrs. Emmett Stewart, of Boyton, Texas, and Mrs. Will Elledge of Edmond, Okla. Seventeen grandchildren and one great -grandchild also survive.
Funeral services were conducted at 4 p.m. today at the Mizpah Methodist Church with the pastor, the Rev. J.W. Eberhart, the Rev. James Sanders of Zebulon, the Rev. Clyde Lee, and the Rev. Hunter Bassett officiating. Interment was in the family lot of the adjoining cemetery.
Pallbearers were Donald McLain, Namon Wiseman, Bill Parks, J.M. Madden, and Leonard and T. B. Bing. Honorary pallbearers were members of the board of stewards of the Mizpah Methodist Church.

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