George H. Vise, of the Third District, was born in Spartanburg District of South Carolina, December 18, 1827. Eli Vise, his father, was a native of South Carolina; was married about 1818 or 1817; to Rebecca Meadows; was by occupation a farmer. About March, 1835, he moved to Tennessee, and died about July. Mrs. Vise survived him nearly four years. The grandfather, John. Vise (father of Eli), is thought to have been a native of England; served gallantly in the Revolutionary war, and when peace was declared, settled in South Carolina. George H., our subject, is the fourth of eight children, and received a good education, such as the common schools of the day afforded, in Wayne County; was married August 22, 1850, to Miss Tennessee Wayne Lafferty, of Wayne County. To this union a large family was born; of those living are William, a farmer, married in 1877 to Elizabeth Crawley of Decatur County; Isabella (Vise) Smith, married in 1870 to Dr. Alex Smith, a practicing physician of Benton County; Minerva C. (Vise) Smith, married, January 13, 1878, to a merchant at Peters Landing, Perry County, who died May 1884; Dora Vise, married March 17, 1879, John Yarbrough, a farmer; George M., married, February 8, 1888, Tennessee Smith, and, Eli (Little Jim). Those dead are Mary, whose demise occurred February 20, 1885; Evangeline, died August 20, 1878, and Virginia, died February 25, 1888.
Mr. Vise was a Whig in that party's day, He enlisted in Col. Jack Biffle's regiment, Confederate Army, was in a skirmish at Jackson, Tenn., Gen. Forrest leading the boys: The army advanced to Trenton, capturing all before it, Trenton included; alter leaving Trenton, were met at Cross Roads by the enemy, and a fight ensued which lasted about ten hours. The army then moved toward Middle Tennessee, near Franklin, where they again met the Federals, and a terrific encounter took place which lasted two days in which many were killed and wounded, but about 800 of the enemy were taken prisoners. In August 1864, Mr. Visa left the army on account of his wife's illness. Upon his return home, finding his place devastated, his possessions gone, he resumed farming. He is a Democrat, but takes no active part in politics more than voting. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and greatly interested in school matters. He and his estimable wife have been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for about twenty-five years. Socially, Mr. Vise is a genial, warm-hearted man, full of the hospitality so characteristic of the true Southerner.
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