Jerome Smallwood Vize
1820 - 1891 (70 years)
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Name Jerome Smallwood Vize [1, 2, 3] Birth 25 Nov 1820 Washington County, Kentucky 
Gender Male Death 23 Apr 1891 Uniontown, Union County, Kentucky Burial Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Union Co, KY Patriarch & Matriarch 
William Theodore Vize, b. 1790, Pennsylvaniad. 1863, Union County, Kentucky (Age 73 years) (Father) 
Susannah Norris, b. 20 Jul 1732, St. Mary's County, MDd. Aft 1774, St. Mary's County, MD (Age > 43 years) (Great Grandmother) Person ID I9187 1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Father William Theodore Vize, b. 1790, Pennsylvania d. 1863, Union County, Kentucky (Age 73 years) Mother Brittania Smallwood, b. 18 Apr 1788, Baltimore, Maryland d. 24 Nov 1857, Union County, Kentucky (Age 69 years) Marriage 11 Jun 1808 Baltimore County, MD [4] Notes - From: GSVize@aol.com
Subject: [SMALLWOOD-L] Basil Smallwood
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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.
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Family ID F3211 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Nancy "Nannie" Elam Maddox, b. 12 Sep 1826, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky d. 22 May 1914, Union County, Kentucky (Age 87 years)
Marriage 7 Jul 1852 Methodist Episcopal Church, Union Co, KY Children 1. John William Vize, b. 30 Apr 1857, Union County, Kentucky d. 1903, Washington County, Kentucky (Age 45 years)▻ Anna "Annie" Lavenia Clements m. 18822. Llewellyn "Lou Ellen" Vize, b. 8 Oct 1857, Union County, Kentucky d. 1935 (Age 77 years)▻ James Madison Russell m. 16 Nov 18803. Minerva Brittania "Minnie" Vize, b. 15 Nov 1859, Union County, Kentucky d. 29 Jul 1966, Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, USA (Age 106 years)▻ James Irvin Thomas m. 18784. Susan Brittania Vize, b. 1860, Kentucky d. Bef 1870 (Age < 9 years)5. Thomas Henry Vize, b. 2 Apr 1862, Union County, Kentucky d. 31 Mar 1884, Union County, Kentucky (Age 21 years)6. Emma Catherine "Kate" Vize, b. 1865, Union County, Kentucky d. Yes, date unknown▻ Travis Stout Chamberlain m. 18907. Mary E Vize, b. 1867, Union County, Kentucky d. Yes, date unknown8. Benjamin Jerome Vize, b. 28 Jun 1868, Union County, Kentucky d. 27 Dec 1963, Los Angeles County, CA (Age 95 years)▻ Annabelle Wathen m. 7 Oct 1896Family ID F2684 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
- From: GSVize@aol.com
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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
- 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.
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