Nestoria Alice Wise was born in 1873, in Texas, United States. She married Clayton Morris on 24 October 1889, in Cooke, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Beckham, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Sayre Township, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 25 June 1942, in Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Sayre-Doxey Cemetery, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Howard, Texas, United States
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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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