When John F. Wise was born in 1813, in Gallatin, Kentucky, United States, his father, Henry Adam Wise Jr, was 19 and his mother, Sarah Bargo, was 18. He married Elizabeth F. Todd on 14 December 1853, in Jefferson, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Carroll, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Trimble, Kentucky, United States in 1860. He died on 2 December 1861, in Jefferson Township, Owen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 48.
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Indiana is the 19th state.
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
Historical Boundaries 1828: Owen, Indiana, United States
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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