Ku Klux
"I remember the folks had been off to see their people and the Ku Klux taken the stock while they were gone. I don't remember the Ku Klux Klan interfering with the Negroes much. I never saw them.
Voting
"I never voted till Cleveland began his campaign for President. I voted for eight presidents. Nobody ever bothered me about it.
Family
"There were six children in my mother's family. My father had six brothers. He made the seventh. I had nine children in all. Four of them are living now. One is here; one, in St. Louis; and two, in Chicago. My boy is in Chicago.
Opinions
"The majority of the young people are just growing up. Lots of them are not getting any raising at all."
Interviewer's Comment
Wise is between eighty-one and eighty-five years old. The data he gives conflict, some of it indicating the earlier and some of it later years.