"The focus of this Wise research is on the Wise family that lived in the vicinity of Lower Lexington County and that part of Lexington and Orangeburg counties that became Calhoun County in 1908. This family lived near and above the Congaree River as opposed to the Wise/Wyse family of the Dutch Fork and the Saluda River. The early name for the settlement along the Congaree River was the Congarees"—Pref., p. ii.

Baptist Churches of South Carolina and list of Baptists.

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