Bonnie--thanks for your info on Patton Wise b 1778 [do you know where?] and living in Clark Co. GA later [do you know when?] Did he died in Clark Co.? Also thanks for the info on Joseph Wise/Margaret Patton and son Patton b 1769 NC. A correspondent in Oregon has 4 Patton Wises related. Two of them were sons of brothers John Wise and Joseph Wise. Then each of them named sons Patton--accounts for those 4. No dates given. Joseph Wise [so I assume John also] was the s/o James Wise and wife Rebecca Massie of Wake Co., NC. This fact from Oregon gets me interested because my ancestor James WISE of SC had a son Levi WISE who married Louisa MASSEY, I suspect in MS. My James WISE had settled in Copiah Co. MS by 1830, set off from Hinds Co. in 1823. Oregon told me another Patton Wise was the s/o Sherwood Wise, who married a Patton, sister to Joseph Wise's wife. Oregon suspects that Sherwood is the s/o the brother of the above mentioned James Wise and Rebecca Massie. That brother was Thomas and his wife was Mary Massie/Massey. In Hinds Co. MS there is a John Wise family cemetery; the family from VA, says a Wise correspondent. One of the gravestones is for John, son of James and Rebecca MASSIE WISE. John was b 1778 NC d 1840 MS. Ann Harper Bonner in north Louisiana gbonner@cbt.net