Thanks Linda, Be glad to keep in touch with you. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Luci60@aol.com <Luci60@aol.com> To: WISE-L@rootsweb.com <WISE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 12:45 PM Subject: Re: Mississippi Wise family > Lydia Wise married Nathaniel Spears. I found a book, I would love to have, >in the Anniston, AL library yesterday. I live in GA. A History of Marlboro >Co., SC compiled by Rev. J. A. W. Thomas and published in 1897, 1971, and 1978 >by Regional Publishing Co. in Baltimore, MD. Its Library of Congress # >73-181859 and the International # 0-8063-79855. There was quite a bit of >information on the Wise and Spears. Too much for me to copy at 25 cents a >page. >P. 58 it states that Jonathan Wise appointed and others were appointed to >build a courthouse and jail >p. 61 Lydia Wise and Nathaniel Spears had 2 sons and a daughter. He came from >Va. When he died she married a Mr. Trawick. Nathaniel came to Carolina and >staked down a claim on banks of Three Creeks. >P. 214 WW Wise wounded severely; alive, Muster Roll Co., F 21st Reg. SC Vol. >The book also told of the Spears/Wise family as baking the best cakes in town. >Next time I go (within a month) I plan to take sufficient money to copy these >pages concerning the Wise/Spears section of the book. I did copy a Marlboro >map which was in the back of the book showing where all families lived at the >time. Spears and Wise family houses were included. Some of the Spears/Wise >descendants traveled west and I know some Spears ended up in Mississippi >because my ggrandfather was born there. I haven't found the missing links >yet. Hope to keep in touch with you concerning this matter. Linda >