In a message dated 5/31/99 8:05:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, cecile@internetpro.net writes: Cecile & Dot, There's "something" that seems to connect. Johnson and Bickerstaff add coincidences. I need to pull some of my notes together. I did check out Ancestry and WFT a little bit to try and get a feeling for the earlier WISE family Saturday. Lincoln, Rutherford & Buncombe co's in NC and York Co., SC sure fit in with the Dover path. The WISE connection is new to me but I throw out SHARP and PONDER as well as NELSON and POLLARD as possible connections. Cecile, thanks for the Butts Co. history. Dennis