James married Minerva Brittania "Minnie" Vize in 1878. Minerva (daughter of Jerome Smallwood Vize and Nancy "Nannie" Elam Maddox) was born on 15 Nov 1859 in Union County, Kentucky; died on 29 Jul 1966 in Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, USA; was buried in 1966 in St. Ann's Catholic Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benedict married Margaret Ann Mills in 1853. Margaret (daughter of James Mills and Ann "Nancy" Mills) was born in 1830 in Washington County, Kentucky; died in 1896 in Union County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Brothers Jerome and Ben Vize helped with wagons and teams to build the first Catholic Church in Union County at St. Vincent. The bricks were made there and the timbers, sills, etc were made from the surrounding forest. Before this Church was built, religious services were few and far between. This was before the Civil War. Father Durbin, the first Catholic priest in Western KY, was a Circuit Rider and periodically came to the Vize home on Casey Creek and always spent the night or nights there. He rode horseback over many miles in KY to tend his flock. When the Nuns first came to Union County to start a Convent at St. Vincent, they came by horseback from Louisville and stayed at the Vize house on Casey Creek. As far back as tradition goes in the Vize family, they have always been Catholic.

Jerome first acquired a 200 acre tract near Uniontown, KY. Later on, he bought another farm between St. Vincent and Morganfield where his family lived. He added to his holdings by adding two or three more farms. In addition to these ventures he and Vest Pike started the first bank in Union County. Uncle Jerome, as he was called by the rest of the family, was quite a trader and with it all he became one of the wealthiest men of the county.

[Source: essay written by James Leroy Vize, grandson of Benjamin Vize]
-Karen Neeley Thomas

Jerome married Nancy "Nannie" Elam Maddox on 7 Jul 1852 in Methodist Episcopal Church, Union Co, KY. Nancy was born on 12 Sep 1826 in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky; died on 22 May 1914 in Union County, Kentucky; was buried in Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Union County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Inscription:
"MOTHER
NANCY E. VIZE
SEPT. 12, 1826
MAY 22, 1914"

Nancy Elam Maddox married Jerome Smallwood Vize 7 Jul 1852, Union Co, KY. They had six children:
1. John William Vize b 30 Apr 1855
2. Lewellyn Louise Vize b 8 Oct 1857
3. Minerva Brittania Vize b 17 Nov 1859
4. Henry Vize b 2 Apr 1862
5. Catharine Emma Vize b 18 Oct 1864
6. Jerome Benjamin Vize b 21 Jun 1867

James married Ann "Nancy" Mills on 8 Nov 1828 in Washington County, Kentucky. Ann (daughter of Ignatius Mills and Mary Manning) was born in 1793 in W. Ky; died in 1893 in Nodaway Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

VIZE, WILLIAM THEODORE & BRITANNA SMALLWOOD (daughter of Basil Smallwood & Mary Gough)(married 6-11-1808 Baltimore, Baltimore Co., MD)
Baptized Liza Vize, 2-03-1832, by Rev. Robert Byrne at Holy Cross Catholic Church. Birth date not given. Sponsor, Eleanor Vize. Parents: William and Britanna Vize.

William Theodore Vize is buried next to his wife Brittania Smallwood Vize. His tombstone no longer exists. His foot stone existed until @1990.
William & Brittania were married 11 Jun 1808 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, MD [Baltimore Evening Post]. The christening of their first children took place in the Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore. There is a record of a Private William T Vize serving in the War of 1812 in the 1 Reg't District of Columbia Militia found in the Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration. Roll Exct 602, Roll Box 216. This is a listing of men mustered into the American armed forces between 1812 and 1815 for the War of 1812.
Mary Gough Smallwood, Brittania's mother, and the William Theodore Vize family moved to Washington Co, KY in the late 1810's, early 1820's. Mary Gough Smallwood's two brothers, Charles & Jeremiah Gough, & their families also removed to Washington County at this time.
William Vize and family are listed in the 1830 Washington Co, KY census. In 1831 both William T and Brittania signed for their daughter, Beatrix, to marry Stephen Pike. The Vizes are listed in the 1840 Marion Co, KY census. Sometime in the 1840's they moved near Morganfield, Union Co, KY and are listed in the 1850 & 1860 censuses of that county where William is listed as a farmer. They had ten children.
Later in life William T Vize and Brittania 'Tanny' Vize lived on the Vize homestead with the family of their son Ben and his wife, Marjorie McMurray Vize, until they died. The original tract of land on Casey Creek remained in the family for more than 100 years, in fact fifty acres of this land was still in the family being owned by Ben Vize II, when it was taken over by the United States Government for Camp Breckenridge in 1944.

William died on a woodland trail half-way between the Vize farm & Boxville. It seems he had been over to visit his daughter Ellen in Boxville, a distance of @10 miles. Jerome & James Benjamin Vize and Stephen Fenwick (Ellen's husband) found William dead beside a log where he evidently had been resting on his return home. -Karen Neeley Thomas

Find A Grave Memorial# 102427965

1850 Union County, Kentucky U.S. Census

No. Name Age Sex Occupation Birthplace
740 Vize, William 66 M Farmer PA
B. 62 F MD
Jerome 30 M Farmer
Benjamin 28 M Farmer
Isabella 22 F
Eliza 19 F
Millburn, Thomas 11 M

The Census of the United States in the Year 1860
No. Name Age Sex Color Occupation Birthplace
199 Vize, Jerome 32 M W Farmer KY
Nancy 30 F WKY
John W. 1 M W KY
Llewellyn 2 M W KY
Susan B. 6/12 M W KY
359 Vize, B.J. 34 M W Farmer KY
Margery 24 F WKY
Thomas J. 4 M W KY
Margery 2/12 F W KY
360 Vize, William T. 77 M W KY
Eliza 26 F W KY
361 Milbourn, Serena 51 F W Farmer KY
Thomas 21 M W KY
Abell, Blanche 7 F W KY

William married Brittania Smallwood on 11 Jun 1808 in Baltimore County, MD. Brittania (daughter of Basil Smallwood and Mary Gough) was born on 18 Apr 1788 in Baltimore, Maryland; died on 24 Nov 1857 in Union County, Kentucky; was buried in St. Vincent Cemetery, Waverly, Union County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From: GSVize@aol.com
Subject: [SMALLWOOD-L] Basil Smallwood
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:39:38 EDT

Looking for other researchers of:

Basil Smallwood b England (?) m Mary Gough b MD - had daughter Brittania b Baltimore, MD, who married William Theodore Vize in Baltimore County, MD, on June 11, 1808.

Glenda

Brittania was the daughter of Basil Smallwood and Mary Gough. She married William Theodore Vize in Baltimore, Maryland. They had 10 children.
Mary Serena Vize Milbourn 1809-1880
Beatrix Vize Pike 1811-
Hanna Vize 1812-
Charles Vize
William DeCoursey Vize 1816
Ellen Elizabeth Vize Fenwick 1818-1906
Jerome Smallwood Vize 1820-1891
James Benjamin Vize 1822-1915
Isabella Vize Coleman 1828?- 1909
Eliza Vize Drury 1831?-1860

Notes:

From: GSVize@aol.com
Subject: [SMALLWOOD-L] Basil Smallwood
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:39:38 EDT

Looking for other researchers of:

Basil Smallwood b England (?) m Mary Gough b MD - had daughter Brittania b Baltimore, MD, who married William Theodore Vize in Baltimore County, MD, on June 11, 1808.

Glenda