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Jeff D. WISEMAN

Roselawn (at Calico Rock) Cemetery
Izard County,
Arkansas

Born 1906, Wiseman, Izard County, Arkansas.
Died May 21, 1931, Calico Rock, Izard County, Arkansas.
Son of Daniel Tipton Wiseman, Sr. & Martha Belle Stuart Wiseman.

Calico Rock Progress, May 29, 1931, Issue:

Jeff Wiseman:

Jeff Davis Wiseman was born at Wiseman, Ark., twenty-five years ago. He moved to Calico Rock, with his father and mother and brothers about eighteen years ago and lived here up to the time of his death, May 21st 1931. He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Wiseman and three brothers, Jim of Kensett and Ernest and Tip of Calico Rock. In early childhood he suffered a severe attack of measles, the result of which deprived him of the use of his legs. He was able to walk until he was about seven or eight years old, the loss of the use of his legs coming on gradually. The very highest medical authorities in the world were consulted in an effort to relieve the malady, but to no avail. After all this had been done and the realization came that he could never walk again, Jeff submitted to the inevitable without a murmur. Hundreds of friends will always remember his smiling face and cheerful disposition. It is really marvelous how he could sit from day to day, radiating an incalculable store of cheer, while his friends and associates walked about all around him. But he did it, his winning smile has been an inspiration to many a friend. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church by Elder. Moses Cooper, a life long friend and close relative of the family. In the fourteenth chapter of St. John there is a promise which reaches the superlative degree of tenderness and hope. Here the preacher found his text; "In my Father's House Are Many Mansions*** I Go To Prepare A Place For You **** That Where I Am, There Ye May Be Also". It was a beautiful sermon, preached about a worthy subject. Many comforting phrases fell from the preacher's lips. Among them this sustaining thought; "Where Jeff is going he will need no legs, he will have wings". We took Jeff to Calico Rock cemetery where a flower covered mound marks his resting place .... but wait! Let us think again. We left only his mortal body there ..... Through our faith in a gracious Jehovah, we can see the golden gates of Heaven swing wide open in their eagerness to welcome the smiling face of Jeff Wiseman.

(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)

Contributed on 9/1/10 by maxparnell
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Submitted: 9/1/10 • Approved: 9/2/10 • Last Updated: 7/24/12 • R369783-G0-S3

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