Nathaniel Wilder Sr. (1765 - 1832)

Born 1765 in Lancaster, Virginia

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Died 22 Feb 1832 at about age 67 in Wilder Chapel, Franklin, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Nathaniel Wilder, Sr. was born about 1765 in Lancaster County, Virginia, British Colonial America, the son of Michael Wilder (1723–1782) and Susannah Steward (1698-1746), however she is much older than he so I hypothesize that Susannah was married to Michael Wilder, Sr. (1700-1746) and Nathaniel is the son of their son Michael Wilder, Jr. (1723-1782).

Nathaniel married first Elizabeth Hampton (1765– ) on . Their children were:

1. Nathaniel Wilder, Jr. (1813–1889)
2. William Spencer Wilder (1815–1887)
3. John Wilder (1818– )
4. Michael Wilder (1821– )

"Nathaniel Wilder, Sr. (1765-1832), and his wife Elizabeth Hampton (1765-?) moved from Virginia to Franklin County about 1810. He is said to be buried near the junction of Gum Creek Road and Wilder’s Chapel Road. His son, Nathaniel, Jr. (1813-1889) married Polly Murphy (1814-1862). About 1858, Nathaniel and Polly moved to Pike County, Indiana. Their son, John, remained in Franklin County. On June 22, 1901, John Wilder and his second wife, Fannie Bowens, gave a half-acre of land for construction of a building that would become Wilder’s Chapel Congregational Methodist Church, started in 1898 by a missionary, a Mr. Hartgraves, who came here from Texas and lived with, or near, John Wilder. Wilder’s Chapel, which for much of the twentieth century, was known by some as “Shakerag,” the major roads are Rutledge Ford Road, on the east; Wilder’s Chapel road, which runs through the center of the community; and Yellow Branch Road, which runs about two miles southward from Wilder’s Chapel Road, crossing Dabbs Road. To the southeast of Wilder’s Chapel is Alto, which was once known as Hawkersville. To the south is Oak Grove and Gum Creek. Across the river to the north is Rutledge Hill, founded by a son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence."^[1]

Notes

Obituary of son William S. Wilder says he was the 4th of five children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, and that both parents died when he was "a lad".

Sources

1. ↑ Donald L. Hill and Willie Sue Partin Hill. 2009. History of the Wilder's Chapel Community of Franklin County, Tennessee. http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/franklin/history/wilders-chapel.txt