Wise Cemetery west of Camden, Indiana
1. Samuel Wise, great, great, great, great grandfather
- Buried in Carroll County
- Born in 1783 in Woodbury, Pennsylvania
- Owned land from Camden to Delphi along Deer Creek.
- Helped found the German Baptist Brethren Church in Camden in 1828
- Died in 1841.
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| Site of German Baptist Brethren Church founded 1828 |
2. Leonard Wise, great, great, great grandfather
- Born 1810 in Montgomery Ohio
- Came with father to Carroll County, Indiana in the mid-1820s
- Died in Camden, 1889
3. Elias Wise (great, great grandfather)
- Born in 1850 in Carroll County, Indiana
- Went with the split away from the group that would become the Church of the Brethren in 1889. The group he went with called themselves the Old German Baptist Brethren
- Died in 1929, Buried in Camden
4. Salome (Wise) Miller (great grandmother)
- Born 1878 in Carroll County, Indiana
- Married Amsey Miller in 1900
- They stayed with the Old German Baptist Brethren in 1919 when a group they call the "horse and buggy" brethren split off opposed to cars and electricity.
- In 1912ish, moved from a brick house west of Camden to a house on the northwest corner of Camden itself.
- Died in 1946 in Camden
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| Deer Creek Old German Baptist Brethren Church |
5. Esther (Miller) Schenck (grandmother)
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| Dorsey and Esther Schenck, 1920 |
- Born in 1902 in Carroll County
- Married Dorsey Schenck in 1920 in her home in Camden
- Got saved in a tent revival in Delphi and was Pilgrim Holiness until the merger that formed the Wesleyan Church in 1968.
- Died in Indianapolis in 1977
6. Lee Schenck (father)
- born in Thorntown, 1924
- Married Helen Shepherd in 1947 in Frankfort
- Pilgrim and Wesleyan
- Passed in 2012
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| Dad, me, and son Tom |
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