Sarah (Yopp) Wilder (abt. 1768 - aft. 1834)

Born about 1768 in Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Spencer Wilder — married 30 May 1789 in Lancaster County, Virginia

Descendants

Died after 1834 after about age 66 in Sumter county, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Sarah (Sally) Yopp was born in Virginia around 1768, based on her being twenty-one years of age when she married in June 1768. Sarah was the daughter of Samuel Yopp and Mary Sammonds of Lancaster County, Virginia.

Sarah Yopp married on the 2nd of June, 1789, in Lancaster County, Virginia, Spencer Wilder. The marriage license was issued on 30 May 1789 in the name of Sally Yopp and Spencer Wilder and the marriage was preformed by L. Lunsford on 2 June 1789,^[1]

Spencer and Sarah filed suit in 1797 against the executors of Samuel Yopp's will. The executors of Samuel Yopp's will were Sarah Yopp Wilder's brother, Samuel Yopp and Seth Blundall. The suit reads in part as follows: "To the Worshipfull the Justices of Lancaster County sitting in Chancery humbly complaining sheweth unto your worships ye orators Spencer Wilder & Sally his wife which Sally is one of the children of Samuel Yopp dec'd that the said Samuel departed this life some time in the year 1793 after having first duly made & published his last will & testament inwriting constituting & appointing Samuel Yopp & Seth Blundall his Exor wherein was the following bequest viz "Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Sally Wilder one shilling sterling - now ye orator expresfully charge that the said Samuel supposed that ye oratrix who had removed to the state of Georgia & from whom he had not heard for several years previous to his death was dead and that she had children in consequence of which supposition charge & can prove that he made the bequest one shilling aforesaid and was heard to declare if he could be certain that the said Sally was alive & had children that he would have her a full proportion of his estate ye orator therefore considers themselves pertermitted in the said will conceive themselves in equity entitled to one 4th part of the estate of which the said Samuel died possessed . . ." There are a number of depositions given in regard to the lawsuit. The deposition of Thomas Carter, who wrote Samuel Yopp's will reads in part as follows: "August 13th '97 . . . Thomas Carter of lawful age, . . . deposeth and saith, that the said deceased did in his last sickness call him in to write his will & directed him to give his daughter Sally Wilder twenty shillings, but on his telling him that if he gave her that, he thought she should have a writ to an equal part with the rest of his children, told him to give her only one shilling sterling & that he had frequently heard the said dec'd previous to the making of his will, say that altho a favorite child, having married contrary to his wishes he never intended to have his daughter Wilder any part of his estate . . . & farther this deponent saith not.[signed] Thomas Carter". There are 43 pages in the file; however, there is no final decision of the court found in the file.^[2]

Sarah appears in the appropriate age bracket in the 1810 Federal census in the household of Spencer Wilder in Sumter District, South Carolina.^[3]

Sarah appears in the appropriate age bracket in the 1820 Federal census in the household of Spencer Wilder in Sumter District, South Carolina.^[4]

Sarah (Sally) Yopp Wilder is named in the will of her husband, Spencer Wilder recorded in Sumter County, Virginia on 8 December 1820.^[5]

Sarah made of Deed of Gift to her grand daughter Sarah Panthea Mellett on the 20th of January, 1834. The Deed of Gift reads as follows: Sarah Wilder to Sarah P. Mellette, Deed of Gift - The State of South Carolina Sumter District} Know all men by these presents that, I Sarah Wilder, for and in consideration of the natural love and affection, I have and bear, for my grand daughter, Panthea Sarah Mellette, have given, granted & delivered, to my said grand daughter, one negro woman named Nancy and her children, Betty, Dolly, Henry and her future issue and increase, also, one feather Bed, one set of Mahogony tables, and one set of drawers, to have & to hold, the said negroes and furniture to her the said P. S. Millett, during her natural life, not subject to the debts, or contracts, of any husband, she may hereafter marry, and after her death then, to such children or grand children as she may have living at the time of her death, and I do hereby relinquish all right, title, claim & interest, the said negroes, to the said P S Millett upon the conditions and terms above set forth, Witness my hand & seal, this twentieth day of January AD 1834 [signed] Sarah her Mark Wilder Signed seal'd and delivered in the presence of Tyre J. Dinkins, John J Potts South Carolina Sumter District} Personally appeared before me John J. Potts and made oath that he was present and saw Sarah Wilder, sign seal and deliver the within deed for the ti? & purposes therein expressed & that [smeared ink not readable] signed with himself as a witness to the due execution thereof. Sworn before me this 27 January 1834. Th. J. Wilder [signed] John J. Potts Recorded 27 January 1834"^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8W-RZ2 : 29 January 2020), Spencer Wilder, 1789.
2. ↑ Lancaster County, Virginia Chancery Court Papers: Wilder & wx vs Yopp's exor - 1808-6; https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/full_case_detail.asp?CFN=103-1808-006#img
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2Y-J6T : accessed 5 March 2020), Spence Wilder, Claremont, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 462, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 61; FHL microfilm 181,420.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHG6-NYC : accessed 5 March 2020), Spencer Wilder, Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 119, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 121; FHL microfilm 162,024.
5. ↑ Will of Spencer Wilder "South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-VSJ3-M?cc=1919417&wc=M6NW-53F%3A210904101%2C211074501 : 21 May 2014), Sumter > Wills book, 1816-1822, Vol. AA > image 133 of 204; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
6. ↑ Sumter District, South Carolina Deed Book I, pages 92 & 93; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKJ-P9J5-W