Source: S009675 Title: GenForum Vangilder Family Genealogy Forum Note: #NS096751
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Source: S012394 Title: Gunn.ged Repository: Call Number: Media: Other
Source: S013013 Title: The Cape May County (1692-____) Magazine of History and Author: Van_Vorst, Joyce Publication: Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society, Cape May CONT Court House, New Jersey, 1995 Note: #NS130131 Repository: Note: #NS130133
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Source: S068526 Title: testmerge.FTW Repository: Call Number: Media: Other
Notes
Note NI2218At the outset in telling about g-grandfather Joseph Van Gilder, there was a family tradition told about him. My Dad (never the "genealogist", mind you) told me that his grandfather Joseph had been born deformed. Dad said he'd never seen his grandpa walk without a cane. The family tradition said that Joseph had been born deformed because of his mother spending so much time in the covered wagon as the family moved from Indiana to Illinois. I always took this comment as an unlikely scenario until genealogical search showed me that he had been born on 26 September 1836 in Knox County, Illinois, just shortly after the family had arrived there from Greenfield, Indiana. He'd been born with both a badly deformed hand and leg.
Further proving the story was this obituary excerpt from the "Perry Chief" - a newspaper in the town of Perry, IA, where Joseph had been living with daughter Clara and her husband. "Mr Van Gilder had been handicapped in this race of life, being born a cripple . . . one of his limbs being misshapen and having practically no use of one hand, the other also affected partially. He assumed the burdens of life hopefully. Had he lived until next January 13th, he and his wife would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary."
With that deformity, Joseph couldn't perform really hard work. He was a drayman for many years, and using horses and wagon he transported goods from the town of Colfax to and from the capital city of Des Moines. Later, he and his fledgling family moved near relatives in Garnett, Kansas, where he ran a small store, but a fire and the chinook winds burned him out of business. He and his family moved back to Iowa where he spent his final days.
Joseph Van Gilder was born 26 Sep 1836 in Knox County, Illinois, a son of Abraham B. (1813 OH - 1889 IA) and Rebecca M. Pauley Van Gilder. He married Margaret Ellen Smith (born 25 Jul 1844 in Ohio) on 15 Jan 1863 in Jasper County, Iowa, in a ceremony conducted by Justice of the Peace R. B. Dawson. He died 22 Oct 1912 in Perry, Dallas County, Iowa while staying in the home of his eldest child, Clara McKean. Cause of death listed on the certificate says "Disease of Heart". His wife, Margaret, died 15 Nov 1943 in East Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, while staying in the home of their youngest child, Prudence Mary "Poo" Sturgis. Her cause of death was listed as "Chronic Myocartis and General Arteriosclerosis". Her certificate shows her age as 99 yrs, 3 mos, 20 days.
Thirteen children were born to them, and eight survived to adulthood
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Acknowledgments
Thank you to Maude Gunn for creating WikiTree profile Vangilder-51 through the import of vangild.GED on Dec 11, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Maude and others.
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