At 12:45 AM 7/19/98 EDT, you wrote: >Sherry, > Do you have any Charles Wise's in your line? Amy Amy--I saw your posting on the WISE mailing list on Rootsweb. I have four Charles WISEs in my database: Charles Washington WISE (my ggrandfather) b. 10 Dec 1840 Macon, Missouri, d. 10 Apr 1921, Lookeba, Oklahoma, s/o Thomas Jefferson WISE and Gabriella HALL, m. 1866 Louisa Catherine HALL, his first cousin and my ggrandmother. Charles W. (THOMAS) WISE, b. bf. 1866, s/o Louisa Catherine HALL above by her first marriage to Charley THOMAS. Family lore says he adopted the WISE surname on his own because he wanted nothing to do with his father. Charles Mattis WISE, b. 8 Jun 1833, Fleming, Kentucky, s/o John WISE (My ggggrandfather) and Mary Ann PRATHER (John's second wife). Charles Lewis WISE (brother of John above), b. 1812, d. 1877, s/o Adam WISE, Jr. and Mary (Polly) THOMAS, m. Suzannah E. ABELL. I also have a letter written to my late aunt Felicia Lois GROAT by a C. H. WISE in 1935 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'm not sure where this person fits. He refers to my aunt as his niece, which would make him my grandmother's brother. The only brother my grandmother had with the first initial 'C' was Charles W. above, who was her half brother. That would make the middle initial 'W' incorrect. This C. H. refers to a daughter (or wife?) Margaret and a daughter nicknamed "Babe," who was training to be a nurse. Please let me know if any of these Charleses is the one you seek. Mary Keck 5519 Clarene Drive Bethel Park, PA 15102-2409 (412) 835-5018