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Note: n Counties, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Chicago, Chapman Bros, 1893: Isaac Wiseman, Sr., was born and reared in Virginia, emigrating to Kentucky when a young man. His wife's father, Beverly Daniel, was in active service and was wounded in the War of the Revolution. After his marriage, Mr. Wiseman engaged in farming and stock-raising in Kentucky, where he resided until his death in March 1852. His wife had departed this life in 1841, leaving a family of five children to mourn her loss. Of these, four grew to manhood and womanhood: John A., who went West; Robert C., who is now deceased; our subject; and Mary J., wife of C.D. Barnes, who lives in Brunswick Township, Chariton County. From Monroe County (W) Virginia Abstracts Deeds (1799-1817) Wills (1799-1829) Sim's Land Grant Index (1780-1862) compiles by Larry G Shuck. Published by Closon Press Apollo, Pennsylvania. Page 6 - 21 Apr 1801: William Tennis and wife Elizabeth Tennis to Isaac Wiseman and William Wiseman 62 acres for five shillings on the north side of Lick Run where said Wiseman now lives. The following information is taken from “The Wisemans” 2nd Edition, 1992. Compiled by Boyd W Venable of 2312 Branner Avenue, Jefferson City, Tennessee, 3760, a Wiseman descendant. Isaac Wiseman(4), Abner Sr's 4th son, was born 1809 in Estill County, Kentucky and died there 3/1 , 1852 at the age of 43. He married Frances (Fanny) Daniel 1/29,1829 and had 4 children. John, born 1830; Robert, born l832; Isaac Marion born 1837; and Mary Jane (May) born 1838. Mary Jane was born about the same time her mother died. I think Frances may have died as a result of childbirth, the same as Abner's first wife Charlotte. Isaac(4) didn’t live a very happy life. He lost his wife in 1838, then moved back into his mother Isabbell's household with his three boys. By 1850, Isabell was gone from the old home place, leaving him with four teenagers to finish raising. He seems to have fallen in with bad company and was in court a lot for quarrelsome offenses against the public peace. For insrance, in 1824 Edward Stivers accused Isaac of Assult and Battery, bruising and wounding, sued for $1,000. In 1832 Isaac deeded two tracts of land near what would later be called Wisemantown to his brother Abner Jr., accepting a horse in payment. In1838, Saw McDowell charged Samuel Wiseman and Isaac Wiseman with assault and battery. Sam McDowell was Isaac's brother-inlaw. Samuel Wiseman was unidentified, perhaps a mistake in transcription. Also in 1838, John McKinney charged Isaac with assult, asking $1,000 in damages. In 1839, charged by the Commonwelth of Kentucky with fencing off a public highway. Later he was charged with killing Margaret King's two hogs, value $500. The jury awarded $100. In 1840, James Johnson charged Isaac with assult and battery, asking for $1000 in damages. These are just examples, the list goes on and on. Finally, in 1842, Isaac posted Charles Pattons bond in J.P. Court for $500. Patton was accused of felony stabbing and shooting Tucker Abney with intent to kill. Patton failed to show up for trial, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky made demand on Isaac for the $500, which, apparently, he didn't have, because they were still harassing him for it in 1843. In October of 1843, Isaac pledged his home on a $44.79 note from Berryman. Such large security on a small note looks like it might have been for additional credit at Berryman's store after Isaac's regular credit had been cut off. Isaac must have been desperate for money. Finally, after numerous affrays, the inevitable happened. Isaac Wiseman(4) was killed in a shoot-out with James Price. According to court records “Price had a pistol loaded with powder and lead and did shoot Wiseman several times. Wiseman then shot Price in the right breast. Price gave Wiseman one mottal wound. He was shot 16 Feb 1852 and died 1 Mar 1852.” Price was found guilty of “a charge of felony for malicious shooting with intent to kill” in Estill County Court Judge A W Quinn's court and released under $1,000 bail and a like amount by others as surety for his personal apperance before the Estill Circuit Court “for further trial.” I do not know how that “further trial” came out. A dispute over the ownership of 1600 white oak saw logs continued on for five years after Isaac(4)'s death, into 1857 After the shooting in 1854, Isaac's oldest son John, then 24 sold his interest in Isaacs 250 acres on Calloway Creek to his younger brother, Robert, for $315 and then, I suppose, left Estill County forever. John appears to have been in Davis County, Iowa with other Wiseman relatives in 1850, although the federal Census of that year also indicates he was in his father's Estill County, Kentucky household for that same year. I cannot resolve that discrepancy. Robert Wisemn may have gone to Missouri. I have found no record of him in Kentucky past year 1850 when he was 18 years old. Isaac(4)'s youngest son, Isaac Marion Wiseman, born in 1837, served as Deputy Sheriff in Estill County in 1861. The census record indicates that Isaac M was still farming in Estill County in 1860, with wife Sarah (born 1833), children Martha born 1857 and William born 3/1860. Unknown person Ann Eliza was also a member of that household in 1860. Mary Jane was Isaac(4)'s youngest child, born in 1838. In 1860 she was living with the Dr I G Clark family in the nearby village of Stanton in Powell County. She was then 22 years old. 1850 CENSUS, Estill County, Kentucky, Dated 9 October 1850, Family #788, Source Citation: Roll: M432_198; Page: 103; Image: 438. Isaac Wiseman, age 40, born in Kentucky John Wiseman, age 20, male, born in Kentucky Robert Wiseman, age 18, male, born in Kentucky Isaac M Wiseman, age 13, male, born in Kentucky Mary J Wiseman, age 12, female, born in Kentucky
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