The Wiseman massacre was an incident that led to the deaths of five children at the hands of Native Americans on the morning of July 24, 1863, in what is now Cedar County, Nebraska. The children’s parents were Henson and Phoebe Wiseman. The five children who died and their ages were Arthur, 16, Hannah, 14, Andrew, 9, William "Henry", 8, and Loren, 4.