Maria Sophia (Vaihinger) Wilder (1828 - 1912)

Born 24 Nov 1828 in Göppingen, Württemberg, Germany

Wife of Christian Augustus (Weide) Wilder — married 6 Jul 1851 in Goppingen, Wurttemberg, Germany

Wife of Henry Burgdorf — married 15 Dec 1878 in St. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, USA

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1912 at age 83 in Spring, Harris, Texas, United States

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Biography

After August Wilder's death, Maria opened a grocery and dry goods store that she ran for several years.

She married for a second time on 15 December 1878 in the Lutheran Church in Ste. Genevieve to Henry Burgdorf, a widower from Randolph County, Illinois. He must have died before 1880 because she is listed as a widow in the Ste. Genevieve County 1880 Federal Census.

In her later years Maria lived with her son August until shortly after 1900. Then she moved to Harris County, Texas, to live with her daughter Wilhelmina.

She is buried in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery near Spring, Harris County, Texas.

Sources

• Marriage 1851: Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Göppingen > Göppingen > Eheregister 1846-1868 Band 23. image 77, 6 Jul. Accessed 9 Sep 2021 at Archion.de.
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZD-7ZZ : 18 February 2021), Mary Wilder in entry for Augustus Wilder, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6F8-C5F : 19 February 2021), Mary Wilder, Ste Genevieve, Ste Genevieve, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district ED 132, sheet 575D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,715.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9M8-NPS : accessed 15 March 2018), Mary Wilder in household of August Wilder, German Township Bremen town, Marshall, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 77, sheet 2A, family 29, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,392.
• "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3WR-HQW : 20 February 2021), Marie Sophia Wilder, 08 Oct 1912; citing certificate number 23561, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,050,832.