My Wises also came from Kansas. All I know is Gr father Jerdon Hill Wise married Lovinia Haney in Cowley County, Silverdale, Kansas. His people supposedly immigrated through Germany from Holland, and they followed the coal mines down into Wilburton and on down into Dawson, a suburb of Tulsa, Ok. Two of his sisters married into the Adamson family of Adamson coal mines, now Adamson Oil Co. All I am sure of past that is if I find a Wise family in the mid 1800's with child with the name Jerdon Hill, that is bound to be them. I have an old tintype picture of the parents who emmigrated, but no one knows their first names. bwise@oklahoma.net Bertha Wise