Mary Ann Clarisa Wise

Brief Life History of Mary Ann Clarisa

When Mary Ann Clarisa Wise was born on 3 August 1814, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Jesse W Wise, was 25 and her mother, Susanna Ferguson, was 22. She married Michael Feazel on 15 January 1830, in Ouachita, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Ward Five, Union, Louisiana, United States in 1870. She died on 12 August 1890, in Union, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Feazel Cemetery, Farmerville, Union, Louisiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Michael Feazel
1805–1881
Mary Ann Clarisa Wise
1814–1890
Marriage: 15 January 1830
Margaret Ann Feazel
1831–1910
Martha E. Feazel
1833–1836
Feazle
1853–1853
G. L. Feazell
Frances Marion Feazel
1835–1862
Benjamin Franklin Feazel
1837–1898
Mitchell Cornelius Feazel
1839–1916
David Feazel
1842–1862
Susannah A. Feazel
1844–1920
Gilbert George Lafayette Feazel
1846–1924
Wilhelmenia Ann Cornelia Feazel
1849–1908
Mary Ann Feazel
1852–1925
Feazel
1853–1855

Sources (10)

  • Mary Ann Fearel in household of Michael Fearel, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Mary Ann Clarissa Feazel, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Margarette Wise in entry for Mary Ann Feozel Carey, "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960"

World Events (8)

1817

Mississippi is the 20th state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

English: nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wise, wisse ‘wise’ (Old English wīs). This name has also absorbed Dutch Wijs and De Wijs, a nickname meaning ‘(the) wise’, and possibly cognates in other languages.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by the withies or willows, from Middle English withi, Old English wīthig ‘withy, willow’.

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Weiss ‘white’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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