1811 On 20 April, Samuel Wise was born to parents Michael and Elizabeth Weise, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3]
1816 On 16 March, Sarah A. Line was born. [4]
1819 On 9 April, Samuel Wise, son of Michael and Elizabeth Weise, was baptized at the Lutheran Church in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [5] [6]
1850 Samuel Wise (age 39) and Sarah N. Wise (age 33) lived in Stephensburg, Frederick County, Virginia with children, including John (age 8). [7]
1860 Samuel Wise (age 50) and Sarah Wise (age 44) lived in Frederick County, Virginia with Sarah A (age 22), John (age 18), William (age 16), David (age 14), Henry A (age 11), George W (age 6), and James B (age 1 month). [8]
1870 Samuel Wise (age 59) and Sarah Wise (age 54) lived in Frederick County, Virginia with Henry (age 21), George W (age 16), and James A (age 9). Saloma Wise (age 72, likely the widowed second wife of father Michael Wise) was listed on the same page of the census. [9]
1876 On 8 November, Samuel Wise died and was buried at Madison Cemetery, Madison, Madison County, Alabama. [10]
1895 On 20 January, Sarah A. Wise, wife of Samuel Wise, died and was buried at Madison Cemetery, Madison, Madison County, Alabama. [11]
Research Notes:
Samuel Wise was named in a biography of son John M Wise with the following description [12]:
Samuel Wise, father of John M., was a native of Pennsylvania, and when his son John was a child moved to Frederick County, Virginia, where he followed farming and blacksmithing. Though he had only a modest education, reading, writing and arithmetic, he possessed much energy and ambition, and always managed to live well and provide for his family. He was born in 1811 and died in 1876; at Madison, Alabama, where he spent his last years. Late in life he became a member of the Methodist Church. In politics he began voting as a whig but after the rebellion was a democrat.
Samuel Wise married Sarah Line, who also died in Madison, Alabama. Their children were seven sons and one daughter: Sarah, who married James H. Cantor and died in Frederick County, Virginia, and is buried at Winchester; Samuel, who died at Hillsdale, Oklahoma; John M.; William, who died at Beaver, Oklahoma; David, who died in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1862; Henry, a carpenter in Frederick County; George, a merchant and president of the bank at Madison, Alabama; Arthur, also a merchant at Madison, where he died.
A biographical sketch of sons G.W. and J.A. names all the children of this couple. [13]:
G. W. and J. A. WISE, merchants, Madison, Ala., sons of Samuel and Sarah A. (Line) Wise, who came with them from Virginia to this place in the fall of 1872. The senior Wise died on his farm near Madison, in 1876. He reared seven sons to manhood, and two of them, John M. and William, served through the late war in the 1st Virginia Cavalry, under Fitz Hugh Lee. They now reside in Kansas. Of the others, Samuel is in Iowa, Henry A. in Virginia, David L. died in 1862. The only daughter is in Virginia.
G. W. Wise was born in Virginia, Nov. 20, 1854, there grew to manhood, and followed farming a number of years. In 1882 he began the life of a merchant at Madison, in the firm of Wise, Hertzler & Co. In January, 1887, that firm was dissolved, and the present one of G. W. & J. A. Wise was organized. They deal in general merchandise and trade in cotton. Wise Bros. & Harper is a firm including G. W. and J. A. Wise and B. F. Harper,'who is a clerk in the store of the Wise Bros.
G. W. Wise is a steward in the Methodist Episcopal church.
J. A. Wise was born in Virginia, on the 2d day of August, 1860, and was married, Feb. 28, 1884, to Miss Lucy Harris, of this State. Her father, Thomas Harris, received a wound at the battle of Manassas, from which he afterwards died. Dr. A. S. Harris, of Madison, her grandfather, was a Virginian. J. A. Wise has two living children.
[1] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].
[2] First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Carlisle, Adams County, Parish Records, Vol. 1 (FHL film 1433175), item 9, [FHLCatalog].
[3] Find A Grave Memorial 10468368, [FindAGrave].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial 10468319, [FindAGrave].
[5] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].
[6] First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Carlisle, Adams County, Parish Records, Vol. 1 (FHL film 1433175), item 9, [FHLCatalog].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] Find A Grave Memorial 10468368, [FindAGrave].
[11] Find A Grave Memorial 10468319, [FindAGrave].
[12] William E. Connelley, A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, Vol. 4 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919), 1762, left column, [HathiTrust].
[13] Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical (1888), 61, [GoogleBooks].