John Wilder Jr. (1796 - 1844)

Born 12 Sep 1796 in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Wales Forbes (Jones) Wilder — married 30 Apr 1826 (to Mar 1844) in Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 4 Mar 1844 at age 47 in Charlton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Rev. John Wilder, Jr., was born at Attleborough, Massachusetts, in September of 1796, a son of Rev. John Wilder, Sr., and Esther (Tyler) Wilder; he married Mary Wales Forbes Jones 1827,^[1] before 1828, the birth year of their daughter Mary Eliza.^[2]

Graduating from Brown University in 1823, he served as pastor at Charlton, Massachusetts, and then from 1833 at Concord.

He died of "lung fever" -- consumption -- at Charlton on the Fourth of March of 1844, aged just 47; his death record appears both at Charlton, and at Cambridge, where he was buried on the Eighth of March.

Sources

1. ↑ John White genealogy.: "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000", database with images, Book Title: Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts : 1638-1900 : in, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 61157 #277051 : accessed 13 January 2023), Name: John Wilder; Gender: Male; Birth Date: 1796; Birth Place: Attleboro, Mass; First Marriage Date: 1827; Father: John Wilder; Mother: Esther Tyler; Spouse: Mary W T Jones; Child: Eliza May Wilder; Mary Alden Wilder; John Wilder; citing Vol. 1, pg. 487-488.
2. ↑ Memorial page for Mary Eliza Wilder (inscription not legible in image of gravestone): Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/148124713/eliza-mary-wilder : accessed 26 May 2021), memorial page for Eliza Mary Wilder (1826–14 Sep 1845), Find a Grave Memorial ID 148124713, citing Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by James Bianco (contributor 47745493); https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148124713/eliza-mary-wilder

See also:

• Birth (NEHGS; image of printed record): "John, s. Rev. John and Esther (Tyler), d. Col. Samuel, of Preston, Ct., Sept. 12, 1796." -- Attleborough VRs, Vol. 1, p. 290; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7652/290/141245070 (by subscription)

• Marriage (spouse named in death record of daughter): "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4S8-3JF : 2 March 2021), Mary Wales Forbes in entry for Mary Alden Loomis, 20 Sep 1910; citing Amherst,,Massachusetts, 186, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,313,703.

• Death (NEHGS; image of printed record): "WILDER... John from Charlton, bur. Mar. 8, 1844, a. 47 y. Lung fever. (Rev. John Wilder, Mar. 4, 1844, G.R.2.) " -- Cambridge VRs, Vol. 2, p. 793; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7675/793/141004863 (by subscription)

• Birth, family, death, and burial (with image of gravestone): Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/148124734/john-wilder : accessed 26 May 2021), memorial page for Rev John Wilder (1796–4 Mar 1844), Find a Grave Memorial ID 148124734, citing Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by James Bianco (contributor 47745493); https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148124734/john-wilder