At 12:42 PM 4/10/99 -0700, billhorn wrote: >My WISE family came from VA. to Georgia and parts beyound. >Bill >At 11:01 ------- 4/8/99 -0500, you wrote: >>I'm new to the Wise list...I'm looking for information on the WISE clan >>from Winona, Minnesota. If anyone has WISE ancestors from Winona, >>Minnesota, please contact me. Thanks! >> >>Jacob Wise GERMANY > New York > Missouri > Minnesota. >> >>Jacob Wise (b. abt 1834, d. bef. 1880) married Catherine Schmidt/Smith >>and they had two children, Julius (b. 1857) and Margaret (b. 1862), in New >>York. They moved to Utica, Livingston County, Missouri and had four more >>children, George, Caroline, John Martin, and Thomas Edward. Jacob Wise >>served in the Civil War. Jacob died before 1880, because Catherine Wise and >>the children are listed without him on the 1880 Missouri census. Catherine >>and family came to Winona, Minnesota in about 1882-3 and are listed on the >>1885 Winona census. Several of the Wises worked for the Railroad as >>blacksmiths, yardmen, or hostlers. >> >> >> > > >