In reply to questions I asked her (Gretchen Wiss Sinon)
Grandfather [Jacob] Wiss had two maiden sisters: Hanale and Amalia; also a brother Joseph who had a family of children - they lived in the suburbs of Solothurn.
When Aunt Gussie was in Switzerland in 1926 - one of Joseph's children was teaching school - The family Aunt Gussie got her information from, were named Wiss but not related - they were florists and had lived opposite the maiden sister - they remembered Mother and Aunt Gussie when they had visited in 1873 with their mother (Grandmother Wiss).
Grandmother [Maria] Wiss's maiden name was Kaiser - she came from Kreutznach, Germany - She went to Germany to bring her mother (whose maiden name was Wartley - that would be our great grandmother) to this country after her father (our great grandfather Kaiser) died (she is buried in Fairmount Cemetery) - She was only in America for a few months when she died.
Grandmother Wiss died of enlargement of the liver - May 19, 1880, she was 51 years. Five weeks later Grandfather Wiss died of asthma - June 25th, he was 61 years.
Our mother, Mary Wiss Ungrich went back to Newark from New York when Martin Ungrich was three months old to keep the home for Aunt Gussie 13 years old. [May 1880, Maria died in April 1880]
Uncle Louis and Uncle Fred who were young men and who carried on the business at 26 Bank Street - you know the rest (where the Prudential is).
Grandmother Wiss had a brother who lived in Philadelphia with his family of five children (I think) - his business was a tobacconist - he went out one day and disappeared and was never heard from since - Grandmother Wiss took one of the children and brought him up with her family.
Grandmother and grandfather Wiss had two children who died before our mother was born - they died within 24 hours of each other (I think they died of diphtheria) Grandmother Wiss was taking care of someone with cholera at the time they died and could not go to the funeral. Some friend had them buried and afterward Grandmother was not satisfied and had them disinterred.
These two children (Jacob and Ferdinand) born before Mary, F.C.J. my father Louis and Augusta are buried in the old Wiss plot near the South Orange Avenue entrance to Fairmount Cemetery as are Jacob and Maria and (my aunt) Augusta Wiss Sinclair and her husband Robert (Bob) Bruce Sinclair who were childless. Uncle Bob was a YMCA Secretary and was sent several places but he and Aunt Gussie lived many years in Erie, PA.