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David Wilder Hill

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David Wilder Hill

Birth
Royalston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
23 Jan 1907 (aged 84)
Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.5402806, Longitude: -71.8911667
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Wives:
~ Ellen (married 22 Apr 1847, Westminster, MA)
~ Caroline (married on 18 June 1850)
~ Lucia (married 17 Apr 1855, Westminster, MA)
~ Mary (married 8 Feb 1871, Westminster, MA)

Other Child:
~ Jessie Louisa "Hill" Shepard (b. 11 Dec 1859; married William H Shepard on 16 June 1881; 1841-07 Feb 1886, Westminster; no children)

Came to Westminster about 1845, locating in the Central Village.

"A quiet, unpretending man, but of the strictest integrity and moral worth, to which his fellow-citizens have rendered adequate testimonial by electing him town Treasurer for more than 30 successive yrs. He is a sincere and devoted member of the First Cong. Church, of which he was chosen Dea. in 1866. He m.(?) Ella E. Brigham of Marlboro, May 12, 1847. She died s.p. Sept. 13, 1848, and he m. Caroline A., dau. of Josiah and Betsey (Puffer) Wheeler, who bore him 2 chn. and d. Aug. 13, 1854. His third w. was wid. Lucia Butterfield, dau. of Henry Marvin, Shelburne, Vt., whom he m. April 14, 1855. She d. Dec. 25, 1869, a. 49, leaving a dau. He m. (4) Feb. 8, 1871, Mary E., dau. of Martin and Sylvia Goddard of Orange."
(source: "History of Westminster, Massachusetts", by William S. Heywood, 1893, pp. 696-697)

occupation: carriage painter

cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage

(sources: "Cemetery Inscriptions of Westminster MA", Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society, 2000, page 111; Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915; United States Census, 1900, Massachusetts, Worcester, Westminster; Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915; "History of Westminster Massachusetts (first named Narragansett no. 2) from the date of the original grant of the township to the present time, 1728-1893; with a biographic-genealogical register of its principal families", by William S. Heywood, 1893, pp. 696-697; Vital Records of Royalston, MA to the end of the year 1849, Births, page 42)
Wives:
~ Ellen (married 22 Apr 1847, Westminster, MA)
~ Caroline (married on 18 June 1850)
~ Lucia (married 17 Apr 1855, Westminster, MA)
~ Mary (married 8 Feb 1871, Westminster, MA)

Other Child:
~ Jessie Louisa "Hill" Shepard (b. 11 Dec 1859; married William H Shepard on 16 June 1881; 1841-07 Feb 1886, Westminster; no children)

Came to Westminster about 1845, locating in the Central Village.

"A quiet, unpretending man, but of the strictest integrity and moral worth, to which his fellow-citizens have rendered adequate testimonial by electing him town Treasurer for more than 30 successive yrs. He is a sincere and devoted member of the First Cong. Church, of which he was chosen Dea. in 1866. He m.(?) Ella E. Brigham of Marlboro, May 12, 1847. She died s.p. Sept. 13, 1848, and he m. Caroline A., dau. of Josiah and Betsey (Puffer) Wheeler, who bore him 2 chn. and d. Aug. 13, 1854. His third w. was wid. Lucia Butterfield, dau. of Henry Marvin, Shelburne, Vt., whom he m. April 14, 1855. She d. Dec. 25, 1869, a. 49, leaving a dau. He m. (4) Feb. 8, 1871, Mary E., dau. of Martin and Sylvia Goddard of Orange."
(source: "History of Westminster, Massachusetts", by William S. Heywood, 1893, pp. 696-697)

occupation: carriage painter

cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage

(sources: "Cemetery Inscriptions of Westminster MA", Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society, 2000, page 111; Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915; United States Census, 1900, Massachusetts, Worcester, Westminster; Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915; "History of Westminster Massachusetts (first named Narragansett no. 2) from the date of the original grant of the township to the present time, 1728-1893; with a biographic-genealogical register of its principal families", by William S. Heywood, 1893, pp. 696-697; Vital Records of Royalston, MA to the end of the year 1849, Births, page 42)


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