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John Asmond Wise

b. 2 November 1876 (1877?)
d. 4 June 1954
buried: Old Bethel Methodist Church, Edmond, SC

Parents: John Wesley Wise and Cedecia Lydia Corley

1. married: Maggie Senn, Birth: 11 February 1882, Death: 26, March 1922, Burial: Old Bethel Methodist Church, Edmond, SC, Parents: Michael James SENN and Sarah Ann SPIRES

Children:

1. Clifton
Birth: approx 1901
Full Name of Spouse: Mrytis HARLEY

2. Sheldon L.
Birth: approx 1903
Full Name of Spouse: Athie SANDERS

3. Clarence D.
Birth: approx 1905
Full Name of Spouse: Addie CRAFT

4. John Clayton
Birth: approx 1907
Full Name of Spouse: Leola SPIRES

5. Lorena M.
Birth: approx 1909
Full Name of Spouse: Dempsey LEE, Bill FALLOWS, Norton CARTIN

6. Maggie Evelyne
died: 22 February 2002
Full Name of Spouse: Jessie DAWKINS

7. Sarah Estelle<
Birth: 21, November 1912
Death: 3 August 1921
Additional Information: died at age 9

8. Ila Mae (Flo)
Full Name of Spouse: Freddie Lee LUCAS

9. Boy child - stillborn

10. Bertha Cedecia
Birth: 10 December 1917
Full Name of Spouse: Ernest Adams

11. Julia
Full Name of Spouse: Holly BRAZELL

12. Boy child - lived one day, Maggie died day after baby
born: March 25, 1922

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2. married: Hattie Cleo Spires, Birth: 16 October 1905, Marriage: Aug. 1, 1922, Death: 23 January 1952, Parents: Jonathan Elbert SPIRES and Harriet CRAFT, Other Husbands: J. E. SPIRES


Children:

1. Susie Idabell
Birth: May 4, 1924
Full Name of Spouse: ? TOBIAS

2. Homer
Birth: June 28, 1926
Death: April 28, 1977
Burial: Old Bethel United Methodist Church, Edmund, SC
Full Name of Spouse: Mildred SHUMPERT

3. Novie
Birth: 14 December 1928

4. J.B.
Birth: April 30, 1930
Full Name of Spouse: Mary SENN

5. Elbert Roosevelt

6. Harvy P.
Full Name of Spouse: Doris ?

7. Freddie

8. Barbara Wilene
Full Name of Spouse: Stanley SHUMPERT


Census record:

1900 Soundex Card<br />T1070 Roll 114
Vol 34, ED 30, Sheet 9

1910 Sondex Card
T1275 Roll 85
Vol 42, ED 26, Sheet 14
>1910 Federal Census
SC - Lexington Co. - Boiling Springs Twp
Roll T624-1467
ED #26
Sheet #14
age: 33

1920 Sondex Card
Vol 41, ED 27, Sheet 17

1920 Federal Census
SC - Lexington Co. -
Roll T625-1702
ED #27
Sheet #17
age: 42

1930 Federal Census
SC - Lexington Co. - Boiling Springs
Roll T626-2204
ED #4
Sheet #11B
age: 52

Information gathered from:
Bertha Wise ADAMS
Lexington County, SC Query Forum
Phyllis Horry, wwhorry@islc.net
Census records

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Vol. 15, Book 4, page 186: The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, SC - January 31, 1900 Wednesday - Married by Rev. Daniel Shumpert on January 21, 1900, Mr. John A. Wise and Miss Maggie Senn both of Lexington County.

He attended Scouter Creek School, a one room building located close to where Falcon Pond is now. He fathered 20 children by 2 wives. He moved to Tin City off Hwy. 302 close to where the Town and Country Store (Mrs. Brown's) is now. He built his home into the side of a hill. There was a spring of water on the top of the hill. He piped the water down the side of the hill into the house. He made his living by farming the old sand hills around where the Falcon Airport is now. He helped load the box cars with sand when the railroad was built. He also helped with the construction of barracks at what was then called Camp Jackson (now Ft. Jackson) in Columbia. (From Sandhills Recollections, page 99)

Obituary - June 5, 1954

J.A. Wise of Edmunds Dies
John Asmond Wise, 76, of Edmunds died yesterday morning at his home following an illness of three weeks.
Mr. Wise was born Nov. 2, 1877 in Lexington County and spent his entire life in that section. He was a farmer and was a member of the Bethel Methodist Church.

Mr. Wise was married to the late Maggie Senn Wise on Jan. 22, 1900, and the following children survive: four sons, Shelton Wise of Oak Ridge, Tenn, Clarence Wise of Columbia, Clayton Wise of West Columbia, and Clifton Wise of Gaston; five daughters, Mrs. Julia Brazzelle and Mrs. Evelyn Dawkins of Columbia, Mrs. Bertha Adams of Westwood, N.J., Mrs. Ila Mae Lucas of Pelion and Mrs. Lorena Carter of Swansea.

In 1922 he married the late Hattie Spires Wise and the following children survive: five sons, J. B. Wise, Freddie Wise, and Homer Wise, all of Edmunds, H. P. Wise and Roosevelt Wise, both of West Columbia; three daughters, Willene Wise of Edmunds, Mrs. Susie Tobias of Gaston and Mrs. Novie Orin or Columbia.

Also surviving are two brothers, D. S. Wise and W. T. Wise, both of West Columbia; 46 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning from the Bethel Methodist Church near Edmunds, conducted by the Rev. G. P. Busch, pastor, and the Rev. John Stevenson. Interment will be in the churchyard.

Active pallbearers will be: Lynwood Wise, Dewey Wise, Buster Lucas, Harold Dawkins and Lewis Wise.

Honorary pallbearers will be: Henry J. Sharp, J. W. Spence, Reubin Lowrimore, Lorry Lucas, Hankel Shealy, Simpson Spires, A. G. Butler, Aiken Croft, Richard Sharp, A. D. Threatt, Shafter, Shumpert, Archie Craft, Jack Sharp, Hobson Taylor, George Taylor, Cromer Osward, Perry Lucas, Earl Sox and Albert Rish.

The body will remain at the Thompson Funeral Home until 4 o'clock this afternoon, when it will be taken to the residence.

(Transcribed from a newspaper article (newspaper unknown) found in the scrapbook of Daniel Simpson Spires. The notebook is now in the possession of his grandaugther, Janie.)