Bienville Families: Wise family, Bienville Parish Louisiana Submitted by Donna Sutton ladyhawke1214@hotmail.com ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Ancestry of Lovie Wise Stewart The ancestry of Lovie I. Wise, wife of James L. Stewart, can be found in the book Col. John Wise of England and Virginia (1617 - 1695) by Jennings Cropper Wise of the Virginia Historical Society. This book, published in 1918, is shelved in the genealogy room at Shreve Memorial Library in Shreveport, LA. The following is a brief summary of Lovie’s ancestry. The Wise family was of the Saxon race which dwelt in England before the Norman Conquest in the year 1066. These are the generations of our Wise family: 1. Oliver Wise of Greston, living in 1066 2. William Wise of Greston 3. Serlonius Wise of Greston 4. Henry Wise who, along with his brothers Oliver and Sir John, was the founder of the House of Wise in Devonshire, England. 5. Sir William Wise, Knight, who lived during the first quarter of the thirteenth century. He married Ela de Veteriponte or DeViponte. 6. Serlonius Wise, who inherited the manor of Thrushelton through the right of his mother. 7. Sir Thomas Wise, married Allreda Trevage 8. John Wise, who inherited “Sydenham” through the right of his mother. John married Joane, the daughter of John Millaton of Meavey. 9. Thomas Wise married Margaret, the daughter and heir of Robert Britt of Slottiscombe. Through his wife, Thomas acquired the manor of Stoke Damarel, where the Wise family built Mount Wise. 10. John Wise married Thomazine, daughter of the celebrated crusader Sir Baldwin Fulford. Their daughter Alice was the mother of John Russell, first Earl of Bedford. 11. Oliver Wise married Margaret, daughter of John Tremayne of Collacombe. 12. John Wise married Mary, daughter of James Cudleigh of Ashton. 13. James Wise married Alicia Dynham, daughter of John Dynham of Wortham. One of their sons, William Wise, was knighted by Henry VIII for “his gallant conduct at the skirmish known in history as the Battle of the Spurs, August 16, 1513”. Sir William was also known for his wit, doe to an incident concerning the king. Sir William lent Henry VIII his signet to seal a letter. The signet’s design included a French fleur-de-lis, also known as “ermites”. The king teased Sir William about the eremites, or mites, by saying, “what, hast thou lice here?” Sir William replied that the French king shared his signet design with him, thus giving him “fleur-de-lice”. It is said that, from Sir William’s remark, Shakespeare created the line “the white louses, which do become an old coat so well.” 14. Sir Rychard Wise of Cudleston, who inserted a star in the family arms. 15. John Wise of Cudleston 16. John Wise who migrated to America in 1635 and settled in Accomack County, Virginia. John married Hannah, the daughter of Capt. Edmund Scarburgh. Hannah’s brother, Sir Charles Scarburgh (b. 1615, d. 1693) was a graduate of Oxford and was a court physician to Charles II, James II, and William III. He was the author of Syllabus Musculorum, which was long used as a textbook at Cambridge. John Wise received a grant of 200 acres of land from Gov. Diggs in 1655, a grant of 250 acres of land for importing five people to the colony, and a grant of 1,060 acres from Gov. Berkeley in 1668, on which John built the estates of “Clifton” and “Fort George” on the Chesconnessex Creek. He also traded seven Dutch blankets to the Indian king of Onancock and Chesconnessex for 600 acres of land. In 1642, John’s home shire of Accomack became the county of Northampton in Virginia. Here, he served as the warden of Hungar’s Parish. He joined other colonial Royalists in proclaiming Charles II the rightful successor of Charles I, and in 1663 he appeared in court records with the title of “Colonel”. John died in 1695 at the age of 78. His will was dated 20 October 1693 and was recorded in the court of Accomack. 17. (continuing the ancestry of Lovie Wise) Johannes Wise, son of John Wise, b. 1660 VA, d. 1741, married Frances Parker. 18. Matthew Wise, b. 1721 Accomack Co., VA, d. 1722. Married ? Harney in 1750. They lived in Worcester Co., MD, then moved to Carteret Co., NC, in 1767. Matthew is the last of Lovie’s ancestors listed in the Col. John Wise book. The author stated that he was able to compile the book through the use of Accomack records in which seven successive generations of the Wise family were recorded in the same court. These records still exist due to the lack of destruction by wars and weather. Because the families of Accomack lived on the limited area of the peninsula for many generations, intermarriages were frequent. Yet, the author was “astonished to discover that the record of the Wise family shows that the children of first cousins, who themselves married double cousins, produced without exception virile men and women of exceptional intellect and character. Intermarriages by blood relations occurred in this family no less than four of its first six generations” in America. The following lineage has been compiled by several Wise family researchers: 19. Ezekial Wise, b. 1752 VA, d. 1780, Onslow Co., NC, m. Elizabeth Swift in 1752. 20. Lemuel H. Wise, b. 1774 in MD/NC, d. 1825 in Jones Co., NC. 21. Ezekial S. Wise, b. 1797 Onslow Co., NC, d. 1874 Barbour Co., AL, m. Winnefred Bullock (b. 1805 GA, d. 1880 AL). Winnefred was the daughter of Burrell Bullock (married on 2 Nov. 1796 in Columbia Co., GA, probably died in GA) and Isabella Gibson/Gipson (b. 1774 MD, probably died in Barbour Co., AL). According to a family story, Ezekial and Winnefred lived near Indian territory. One day, Winnefred was outside tending to her garden when an Indian crept up behind her, slashed her stomach with a knife, and ran away. Winnefred wrapped her apron around her stomach, went inside the house, and sewed up the wound with a needle and thread from her sewing basket. Ezekial and Winnefred’s children were: (a) Lovie I. Wise, b. March 1829 AL, d. 1910 Bienville Parish, LA, married James L. Stewart on 10 Oct. 1849 in Barbour Co., AL. (b) Elizabeth, b. 1832 AL, m. Andrew S. Williamson on 19 Oct. 1856 (c) James H., b. 1835 AL, m. Ann Stewart on 11 Jan 1869 (d) Lemuel Lafayette, b. 17 Aug. 1836 AL, d. 22 Oct. 1896, m. Mary Jane Grantham on 29 Nov. 1860 (e) Mary Jane, b. 1838 AL, m. Turner Howell on 4 Aug. 1854 (f) Thomas, b. 1840 AL (g) John Edward, b. Jan. 1846 AL, d. 1913, m. Frances Victoria Watson on 27 Oct. 1870 (h) Sarah/Susan Amanda, b. 1847, m. Thomas Dubose or Debane