George Newton Wilder (abt. 1869 - abt. 1937)

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Died about 26 Jun 1937 at about age 68 in McLean County, Illinois

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George was born about 1869.^[1]

The 1900 US Census shows George living in McLean County, Illinois with wife Ruth and 5 children. George and Ruth have been married for 10 years, and all the children were born in Kentucky between January 1891 and September 1898. Interesting that there are three others living with the family, including boarder Margaret Mink, b. VA Feb 1839, and aunt Sarah Wilder, a widow b. VA Feb 1831.^[2] The children living with them were:

• Lucy B., b. January 1891
• Cassius M., b. December 1892
• James E., b. December 1894
• William R., b. July 1897
• William C., b. September 1898

George N. Wilder died in McLean County, Illinois, on June 6, 1937,^[3] and is buried at the Chenoa Cemetery, Chenoa, McLean, Illinois.^[4] According to George's death record, he was born on April 3, 1869, in Lee County, Virginia, to James Wilder and Sally Mink, both born in Virginia. He worked as a Section Foreman for a railroad.^[5]

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Peggy Higgins, Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MS4C-23R : accessed 17 January 2015), George Wilder, Chenoa Township Chenoa city Ward 1-3, McLean, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 16A, family 359, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,322.
3. ↑ Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Death Index," http://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/idphdeathsrch.jsp, accessed 01/17/2015; McLean Co., Death Certificate #220
4. ↑ www.FindAGrave.com; Memorial# 79856744; Created by: Tony Cannon; Record added: Nov 04, 2011
5. ↑ Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 [ Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original records. FHL Film #1786890

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