Individual Details

1830, Johnson Co IN
Robert Wishard. 1m under 5 [Milton], 1m age 15-20 [??], 1m age 20-30 [Robert age 27]
1f under 5 [Caroline], 1f age 20-30 [wife, Rebecca], 1f age 60-70 [probably his mother Elizabeth Rhodes Wishard]

Land Patents in Johnson Co IN. 20 Oct 1824, 16 Apr 1835, 30 Sep 1835, 16 Oct 1835 - last three close together.
Historical Sketch of Johnson County by Banta: He was a Constable under Archibald Glenn, his brother-in-law and elected Captain of a company of Militia.

1840 Census, Johnson Co IN
1m under 5 [John], 1m 5-10 [Milton], 1m 30-40 [Robert]
1f under 5 [Mary], 1 f 5-10 [Emily], 1f 10-15 [Caroline], 1f 30-40 [Rebecca]

1850 Johnson Co IN Census. Robert, farmer, age 47, born in KY, with wife Rebecca and all the children except Caroline who had married. All the children born in IN.

1860 Census, Johnson Co IN, Pleasant.
Robt C. Wishard age 56, b. KY. Rebecca 52, b. KY.
Emily 28, John M. 24, Robert W. 16, Andrew 14, Harriet L. 11, all children born in IN
Washington Smithe, age 40, b. KY "Idiotic" lived with the family.

1870 Census, Johnson Co IN, Pleasant
Robert Wishard age 66, Farmer, b. KY Rebecca age 62, b. KY
Emily age 32, b. KY. Ann Green, age 18, domestic Servant, b. Louisiana

1880 Census, Johnson Co IN, Pleasant, Dist #150
Robt. C. Wishard age 76. Born KY. Father b. Ireland, mother b. Pennsylvania
Rebecca C. age 75, wife, b. KY, father b. KY, mother b. PA
Katie Burton, age 14, "Raising" b. IN as were her parents.

Banta, D.D. History of Johnson County, Indiana. Chicago, IL: Brant & Fuller, 1888.
CAPT. ROBERT C. WISHARD, a pioneer of Johnson County, was born in Fleming County, Ky., August 29, 1803, and was the son of William and Elizabeth (Furlow) Wishard, the former of whom was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and the latter was born in the city of Philadelphia. At twenty years of age, he accompanied his widowed mother to Johnson County, and located in White River Township, where he pursued the vocation of a farmer until the spring of 1848. At that time he removed to Pleasant Township, and he has ever since occupied the farm where he now resides. The chief occupation of his life has been farming. His farm contains 120 acres, about seventy of which are in cultivation. While he has devoted almost his entire attention to farming, he has also been identified with the county's military and political history. As early as 1831 or 1832, he was made captain of a military company organized in White River Township, and it is for this reason that he is so familiarly known as Capt. Wishard. In politics, Mr. Wishard was formerly a whig. He was made the candidate of his party for the state legislature, but though he failed to be elected, he received every vote in his township but three. He served as constable in White River Township for five years. Since 1856, Mr. Wishard has been identified with the republican party. He was married May 22, 1826, to Rebecca C. Smith. She was born in Mason County, Ky., October 29, 1805, and was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Martin) Smith, who also were natives of Kentucky. Their marriage resulted in the birth of eight children, as follows: Caroline H., born August 10, 1827; Milton M., December 12, 1829, deceased; Emily F., June 18, 1832; John M., November 24, 1835; Mary W., October 31, 1839; Robert W. May 10, 1842, deceased; James A., July 25, 1844, deceased, and Hattie L., July 26, 1849, deceased. The wife of Mr. Wishard died August 23, 1882, aged seventy-seven. Though in the eighty-fifth year of his age, Mr. Wishard still enjoys good health. He was the youngest of a family of fifteen children, ten sons and five daughters, all of whom, except himself, are now deceased. He is one of Johnson County's oldest pioneers, having resided here continuously for sixty-five years.

Buried Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood, Johnson Co, IN, with Rebecca.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 11, 1893, Volume XXXIV, Number 5, page 6, column 4
R. C. Wishard, uncle Bob, died about seven o’clock Tuesday evening, aged about 91 years. He has been declining for some months. He has resided for years on the farm where he died. Funeral and burial Friday afternoon – waiting for children to arrive from a distance.

The Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, IN, 10 Aug 1893, Thursday, p.3
At A Ripe Old Age
Death of Capt. Robert C. Wishard on his Farm near Greenwood.
With the death of Capt Robert C. Wishard, who resided on a farm a few miles below Greenwood, passed away one of Indiana's pioneers. Capt Wishard was with a few weeks of his ninetieth year when he died, have been born in Nicholas Co, KY, aug 29, 1803. When he was 20 years of age he came to this State and settled in John County, in the vicinity of the farm upon which he died Tuesday evening. Three years later he married Miss Rebecca Smith, and the union continued for fifty-two years, until her death in 1878.
There are four children surviving their parents - a son and four daughters - three sons deceased. One of these died in the hospital at New Orleans during the war from an illness contracted during service, another died in Arkansas in 1873, and the third, Dr. Milton M. Wishard, died in 1877, while occupying the postion of superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Knightstown, to which position he was appointed at the found of the home.
Captain Wishard had been a farme all his life and was hale and hearty until about a year prior to his death, when he began to slowly waste away, and for the past year he had not left the farm upon which he resided for nearly forty-six years. He death was due to old age, and he passed quietly from this world to the next. He is the last of a family of nonogenerains and his nephew, Dr. William H. Wishard, of this city, who is now seventy-eight years of age, is the oldest one fo the family bearing the name now living.

Birth	29 Aug 1803	Fleming County, Kentucky
Marriage	21 May 1826	Marion County, Indiana - Rebecca Smith
Death	8 Aug 1893	Johnson County, Indiana

Spouse	Rebecca Smith (1805 - 1882)
Child	Caroline H. Wishard (1827 - 1909)
Child	Milton Morris Wishard (1829 - 1877)
Child	Emily F. Wishard (1832 - )
Child	John M. Ward Wishard (1835 - )
Child	Mary W. Wishard (1839 - 1927)
Child	Robert W. Wishard (1842 - )
Child	James Andrew Wishard (1844 - 1863)
Child	Harriet L. "Hattie" Wishard (1849 - )

Father	WILLIAM WISHARD (1729 - 1814)
Mother	Elizabeth Furlow (1767 - 1840)
Sibling	Andrew Wishard (1799 - 1823)