ORLANDO WILDER was born in Sandy Creek, Oswego County, N.Y., November 25, 1815, leaving there at the age of 18, when the family moved to Hudson, Portage County, Ohio. They lived there eight months and in February, 1836, his father and the others of the family started for Indiana, arriving in March, but he did not reach here until a week later, having to bring a load of household goods with an ox team, leading a cow behind the wagon. Reaching this place they located where the old homestead now is, buying the land of the government. He united with the church at the age of 13, and was, with his father, mother and brother William, one of the constituent members of the church organized at Jackson Prairie in June 1836.
He was one of the pioneers of Millgrove and one of the founders of "Vermont Settlement," and endured all the hardships incident to the settlement of a new country. By hard work and economy (not parsimony) he accumulated a competency. He was extremely liberal with the means with which God had abundantly blessed him, liberal to the church, to the sanitary commission during the war, to home and foreign missions and to the poor and needy around him. But comparatively few of his good works are known, for he was a man who never boasted of his charities. What is known has been told by the recipients of his bounty. He literally obeyed the injunction, "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."
He was united in marriage to Ursula Humphrey, January 14, 1844, and his bereaved widow and two children, E. A. Wilder and Mrs. Eva Rose, survive him. One brother, G. K. Wilder, and one sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Fox, are all that are left of his father's family.
He died on the old homestead Nov. 8, 1891, aged 75 years, 11 months and 18 days. In his home, in the church and in the neighborhood he will be greatly missed and will be "evermore remembered by what he has done." Funeral services were held at his late residence conducted by his pastor, Rev. D. Q. Travis, and not withstanding the severe storm, was largely attended by sympathizing friends, and he was laid to rest in the Carlton cemetery. To the widow and other surviving friends, we, as a community, extend our heartfelt sympathy, but we know what is their loss is his eternal gain.
STEUBEN REPUBLICAN
Wednesday, November 18, 1891,
p. 8, col. 3.
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Parents: William Wilder and Mary (Breed) Wilder
Married Ursula A. Humphrey on Jan. 14, 1844.
Children:
Edson Adelman Wilder
Eva Alida (Wilder) Rose
Luman H. Wilder
Note: There may be other children who were not buried in Steuben County, Indiana.
He was one of the pioneers of Millgrove and one of the founders of "Vermont Settlement," and endured all the hardships incident to the settlement of a new country. By hard work and economy (not parsimony) he accumulated a competency. He was extremely liberal with the means with which God had abundantly blessed him, liberal to the church, to the sanitary commission during the war, to home and foreign missions and to the poor and needy around him. But comparatively few of his good works are known, for he was a man who never boasted of his charities. What is known has been told by the recipients of his bounty. He literally obeyed the injunction, "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."
He was united in marriage to Ursula Humphrey, January 14, 1844, and his bereaved widow and two children, E. A. Wilder and Mrs. Eva Rose, survive him. One brother, G. K. Wilder, and one sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Fox, are all that are left of his father's family.
He died on the old homestead Nov. 8, 1891, aged 75 years, 11 months and 18 days. In his home, in the church and in the neighborhood he will be greatly missed and will be "evermore remembered by what he has done." Funeral services were held at his late residence conducted by his pastor, Rev. D. Q. Travis, and not withstanding the severe storm, was largely attended by sympathizing friends, and he was laid to rest in the Carlton cemetery. To the widow and other surviving friends, we, as a community, extend our heartfelt sympathy, but we know what is their loss is his eternal gain.
STEUBEN REPUBLICAN
Wednesday, November 18, 1891,
p. 8, col. 3.
_________________________________________________________
Parents: William Wilder and Mary (Breed) Wilder
Married Ursula A. Humphrey on Jan. 14, 1844.
Children:
Edson Adelman Wilder
Eva Alida (Wilder) Rose
Luman H. Wilder
Note: There may be other children who were not buried in Steuben County, Indiana.
ORLANDO WILDER was born in Sandy Creek, Oswego County, N.Y., November 25, 1815, leaving there at the age of 18, when the family moved to Hudson, Portage County, Ohio. They lived there eight months and in February, 1836, his father and the others of the family started for Indiana, arriving in March, but he did not reach here until a week later, having to bring a load of household goods with an ox team, leading a cow behind the wagon. Reaching this place they located where the old homestead now is, buying the land of the government. He united with the church at the age of 13, and was, with his father, mother and brother William, one of the constituent members of the church organized at Jackson Prairie in June 1836.
He was one of the pioneers of Millgrove and one of the founders of "Vermont Settlement," and endured all the hardships incident to the settlement of a new country. By hard work and economy (not parsimony) he accumulated a competency. He was extremely liberal with the means with which God had abundantly blessed him, liberal to the church, to the sanitary commission during the war, to home and foreign missions and to the poor and needy around him. But comparatively few of his good works are known, for he was a man who never boasted of his charities. What is known has been told by the recipients of his bounty. He literally obeyed the injunction, "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."
He was united in marriage to Ursula Humphrey, January 14, 1844, and his bereaved widow and two children, E. A. Wilder and Mrs. Eva Rose, survive him. One brother, G. K. Wilder, and one sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Fox, are all that are left of his father's family.
He died on the old homestead Nov. 8, 1891, aged 75 years, 11 months and 18 days. In his home, in the church and in the neighborhood he will be greatly missed and will be "evermore remembered by what he has done." Funeral services were held at his late residence conducted by his pastor, Rev. D. Q. Travis, and not withstanding the severe storm, was largely attended by sympathizing friends, and he was laid to rest in the Carlton cemetery. To the widow and other surviving friends, we, as a community, extend our heartfelt sympathy, but we know what is their loss is his eternal gain.
STEUBEN REPUBLICAN
Wednesday, November 18, 1891,
p. 8, col. 3.
_________________________________________________________
Parents: William Wilder and Mary (Breed) Wilder
Married Ursula A. Humphrey on Jan. 14, 1844.
Children:
Edson Adelman Wilder
Eva Alida (Wilder) Rose
Luman H. Wilder
Note: There may be other children who were not buried in Steuben County, Indiana.
He was one of the pioneers of Millgrove and one of the founders of "Vermont Settlement," and endured all the hardships incident to the settlement of a new country. By hard work and economy (not parsimony) he accumulated a competency. He was extremely liberal with the means with which God had abundantly blessed him, liberal to the church, to the sanitary commission during the war, to home and foreign missions and to the poor and needy around him. But comparatively few of his good works are known, for he was a man who never boasted of his charities. What is known has been told by the recipients of his bounty. He literally obeyed the injunction, "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."
He was united in marriage to Ursula Humphrey, January 14, 1844, and his bereaved widow and two children, E. A. Wilder and Mrs. Eva Rose, survive him. One brother, G. K. Wilder, and one sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Fox, are all that are left of his father's family.
He died on the old homestead Nov. 8, 1891, aged 75 years, 11 months and 18 days. In his home, in the church and in the neighborhood he will be greatly missed and will be "evermore remembered by what he has done." Funeral services were held at his late residence conducted by his pastor, Rev. D. Q. Travis, and not withstanding the severe storm, was largely attended by sympathizing friends, and he was laid to rest in the Carlton cemetery. To the widow and other surviving friends, we, as a community, extend our heartfelt sympathy, but we know what is their loss is his eternal gain.
STEUBEN REPUBLICAN
Wednesday, November 18, 1891,
p. 8, col. 3.
_________________________________________________________
Parents: William Wilder and Mary (Breed) Wilder
Married Ursula A. Humphrey on Jan. 14, 1844.
Children:
Edson Adelman Wilder
Eva Alida (Wilder) Rose
Luman H. Wilder
Note: There may be other children who were not buried in Steuben County, Indiana.
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O. WILDER
DIED
Nov. 8, 1891
AE 75yrs.11mo.13days
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