Ernest Frederick Wise Family

In 1752, the family of Ernst Friedrich Weiss arrived in SC, coming on the Rowand. At that time the family (as described in Council Journal Vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 48) consisted of wife and children: Maria 12; George 12; Felix 6 and Fred age 4. A 300 acre bounty grant to Ernst Friedrich Weiss was located on the north side of the Saluda River near the present site of the Lake Murray dam.

Ernst Friedrich Weiss and Maria Barbara Ruff were m. on 2 December1732 in the Evangelical Church of Nottingen, Baden, Germany. The church record indicates that the bridegroom was Catholic but wanted to marry in the Evangelical Church and raise his children in that faith. They lived in Obermutschelbach where birth records of their children are found.

 An early history of this family is "History of the Wise and Wyse Family of S.C." by Frederick Calhoun Wyse, Jr. (1944). An updated genealogy of the family is "The Wise and Wyse Families of S.C." by Sybil & Wallace Harmon (1992).

                     Family of Ernst Friedrich Weiss and Maria Barbara Ruff

I. Johann Martin Weiss, born 22 August 1733.

II. Jacob Weiss, born 9 October 1735.

III. Maria Barbara Weiss, born 3 September 1737, died 14 September 1748.

IV. Maria Salome Weiss, born 17 May 1740.

V. Johann Georg Weiss, born 23 November 1742, died 1821, married Anna Barbara Buckle (Bickley), born 1749, died 1837, daughter of  Johan Jacob Buckle. George Wise is said to have fought at the Battle of King's Mountain during the Revolutionary War. The signature of George Weis is found in the list of petitioners for the incorporation of Bethel Church on High Hill Creek (1788). George Wise (as George White) obtained a late Colonial survey on Wyse Branch of Big John's Creek.  This land was near Rauch's, later Wyse's, Ferry on Saluda River.

  The obituary of Ann Barbara Bickley Weiss states that there were 13 children, 7 of whom were living at the time of her death ("Southern Times and State Gazette").

A. Sophia Jane Wise, born 19 April 1769, died 11 August 1848, married John Stingley. They moved to Sallis, Attala County, MS.

B. Nancy Wise, born 1774, died 21 September 1844, married John Samuel Hiller.

C. George Wyse, Jr., born 25 November 1776, died 5 September 1837, married about 1798, Mary Margaret Kelly, born 25 October 1775, died 14 May 1854, daughter of  John George Kelly and wife, Mary Margaret. Family Cemetery is now in Lake Murray.

1. Elizabeth Kelly Wyse, born 1802, married 12 September 1819, Jacob Harmon.

2. Kesiah Wyse, born 1805, married Jesse Bates.

3. Joseph Wyse, born 1807, married Sarah Rachel Cayce. Moved to Attala County, MS.

4. Sarah Wyse, born 1810, married Frederick Harmon, brother of Jacob Harmon.

5. Mary Ann Wyse, born 1814, married Dr. Patrick H. Todd. Moved to Ocala, FL.


6. Barbara Wyse, born 1819, did not marry. Moved to FL. 7. Henry D. Wyse, born 1823, married Elizabeth Caughman. Moved to Attala County, MS.

D. John Wise, born 25 September 1779, died 16 September 1860, married 22 May 1799, Anna Mary Kelly, born 22 May/June 1779, died 3 July 1830, daughter of John George Kelly and wife, Mary Margaret. His baptismal sponsors were George Kelly and wife, Mary Margaret. John Wise acquired a large estate in Newberry District on Saluda River near Lee's, later Bates' ferry.

1. Elizabeth Wise, born 20 January 1800, died 20 February 1858, married John Harmon Derrick, died 17 September 1825, son of George Derrick and Sabina Harmon.
2. George Wise, born May 1801, died 5 October 1877, married 1) 5 October 1819, Mary Roberts, born 16 September 1807, died 22 June 1885, daughter of  Solomon Roberts and Mary Harmon; married 2) Mary A. Elizabeth Shealy, born 16 September 1807, died 22 June 1885, daughter of Henry Shealy, Sr. and Elizabeth Kinard.

a. Rebecca Margaret Wise, married Henry Jennings.

b. John A. Wise, born 1827, died 9 September 1862, CSA, Second Battle of Manassas, married Martha A. Schumpert

c. Maj. Patrick E. Wise, born 6 October 1830, died 18 May 1895, married Christina E. Aull, born 7 December 1830, died 12 March 1889, daughter of  Rev. Herman Aull. Buried Prosperity Cemetery.
d. Walter Michael Wise, born 11 May 1834, died 1 December 1908, married Martha Ellen Roberts, born 7 December 1837, died 28 February 1918, daughter of  George Roberts and Eliza Corley. Both buried Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church Cemetery.

e. James H. Wise, born 12 February 1839, died 30 September 1861 (CSA).

f. Lemuel E. Wise, born about 1845, died 18 September 1861 (CSA).3. Nancy Wise, born 19 March 1803, died 10 August 1857, married John McC. McNeary, born 22 November 1804, died 30 October 1872, who ran Ferry on Saluda River. Both buried St. Mark's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Saluda County, SC.

4. Christina Wise, born 20 January 1805, died 26 January 1892, married Capt. Frederick Kinard, Jr., born 2 September 1800, died 12 July 1871. Both buried St. Mark's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Saluda County, SC.

5. Sarah (Sally) Wise, born 28 December 1806, died 20 July 1855, married Jacob Singley, born 21 April 1805, died 29 November 1881, son of  Rev. Martin Singley and Sophia A. Hope.
6. David Wise, born 30 April 1809, died June 1882, married Rosannah Elizabeth Etheridge, born 1 February 1821, died 15 January 1900, moved to GA and buried in Lebanon Cemetery near Plains, GA.

7. Jesse Wise, born 6 January 1811, died 4 May 1868, married 1) Martha Etheridge, and married 2) Jane (Jensie) Etheridge, sister of his first wife.

8. Jeremiah Wise, born 27 January 1813, married 1) Letitia Jennings, and married 2) Elizabeth Fellers.

9. Jemima Wise, born 24 November 1815, married 22 September 1836, George Addy.

10. Mary Margaret, born 13 December 1817, died about 1866, married Michael E. Shealy, born 30 April 1813, died 17 July 1874, son of  Henry Shealy, Sr. and Elizabeth Kinard.

11. Joel Wise, born June 1820, died 26 May 1895, married 1) Melissa Schumpert, and married 2) Mary Jane Moore.

E. Catherine Wise, born 1783, married Thomas Wingard, Sr., born 1781, son of George Michael Wingard and Anna Maria Ochs.
F. Frederick Wyse, born about 1787, died 11 October 1854, married 1) 30 June 1814, Julia Kelly, died 1835, daughter of John George Kelly and wife, Mary Margaret; married 2) Charlotte Shull Roof, born 1796, died 25 May 1875, widow of Benjamin Roof.   Frederick Wyse settled near his father's homeplace and ran Wyse's Ferry on Saluda for the old Lexington-Chapin Road.

1. Kesiah Wyse, born 3 April 1815, died 18 August 1897, married 23 February 1832, Martin Caughman, born 1798, died 1855, son of Christopher Caughman and Catherine Drafts.

2. Barbara Wyse, born 5 August 1816, died 16 April 1896, married 11 August 1836, Godfrey Harman, Jr.

3. Capt. Joseph W. Wyse, born 7 March 1818, died 27 November 1886, married Rosannah Singley.
4. Martha Wyse, born 20 January 1820, died 4 April 1894, married 25 January 1842, Malachias Lowman, born 17 January 1820, died 20 June 1862, son of  John Lowman and Christina Sulton.

5. Margaret Mahala Wyse, born 12 March 1822, married Lemuel Calvin Fellers, born 20 October 1824, died 15 February 1899, son of  John Fellers and Ann Catherine Kibler.

6. David Allen Wyse, born 19 December 1823, died young.

7. Dr. Benjamin Robert Wyse, born  21 November 1825, died 10 August 1903, married Charlotte Eleazer.

8. John Harrison Wyse, born  28 March 1828, died 2 December 1891, married Henrietta C. Barber.
9. Charlotte Priscilla Wyse, born 7 February 1830, died 18 November 1845.

10. Mary Ann Susannah Wyse, born 7 July 1832, married Dr. Thomas Compton. Moved to AL then to Guadalupe County, TX.

11. Rebecca Wyse, born 1835, married Harmon Lowman. Moved to AL, then to Guadalupe County, TX.

G. Unknown Daughter , married  ___ Unger, and were parents of son, Jacob, who had a son, Dr. Henry Unger.

H. Unknown Daughter, married Christopher H. Wiggers.

I. Mary Margaret (Greta) Wise, married Christian Harmon, son of  John Jacob Harmon.

J. Anna Maria Wise, born 19 December 1797, died 3 April 1864, married George John Derrick, born 30 December 1791, died 9 November 1870, son of  George Derrick and Sabina Harmon. Both are buried in St. Peter's (Piney Woods) Lutheran Church Cemetery, Chapin, SC.

VI. Johann Philipp Weiss, born 31 January 1746. A 1777 record from St. John's Lutheran Church, Charleston, indicates that Salome, widow of Philipp Weiss, married Martin Rothmayer.

VII. Ernst Friedrich Weiss, Jr., born 26 February 1749, died 1817 in Lexington District with Mary Wise, executor of estate (B. H. Holcomb, "Memorialized Records of Lexington District, S.C., 1814-1825.")

A. George Wise was born c 1775, and died c 1829. He married ? Unknown. She was born Unknown.

1. Daughter⁵ Wise, born Bet. 1795 - 1804.

2. John G. Wise, born c 1800; died June 27, 1881. He married Mary Magdalene Furtick; born c 1808; died 1883.

3. David Wise, born c 1805; died c 1872. He married (1) Libby Slagle; born Unknown; died c 1840. He married (2) Mary Eleanor Goodwin June 10, 1842; born February 20, 1821; died Bef. March 6, 1909.

4. Daughter Wise, born Bet. 1805 - 1810.

5. Jacob Wise, born 1806; died Bet. 1870 - July 16 1871. He married Nancy Ann Rucker; born c 1804; died November 1, 1870.

6. Laurence Godfrey Wise, born c 1814 in Orangeburg District, SC; died Bef. 1880. He married Rebecca Ott; born c 1816; died Bef. 1880.

7. William Wade Wise, born c 1819 in Orangeburg District, SC; died 1900. He married Martha Brady; born 1818; died 1899

         8. Daughter Wise, born Bet. 1810 - 1819.

                 9. Daughter Wise, born Bet. 1810 - 1819.

               10. Daughter Wise, born Bet. 1810 - 1819.

               11. Ann Elizabeth Wise, born c 1826. She married Jacob Crider; born 1820.

Updated 6 July 2004