High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Edwin Wilder
8 Feb 1829 – 21 Apr 1906 · about 77 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Edwin Wilder lived from 8 Feb 1829 to 21 Apr 1906, a span of about 77 years.
Theirs is one of 41 markers bearing the name Wilder in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsMary Foster Wilder Ripley1808–1881 · Abigail Jacobs Wilder Reed1810–1845 · Lucinda Wilder1811–1829 · Harriet Wilder Sprague1816–1902 · Edward Wilder IV1819–1889 · Martin Wilder1821–1863 · Franklin Wilder1827–1844
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. A ✓ marks a tie the 1893 History of Hingham independently confirms.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Line of descent, as the genealogy traces it: Edward › Jabez › Edward.
Matched exact birth date in their own Wilder family entry (no. 47), corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
47. Edwin8 (Edward64"3 Jabez2 Edward1), b. in Hing. Feb. 8, 1829. m. Feb. 12, 1852, Olive M. Whiton, dau. of Isaiah and Martha D. (Easterbrook) Whiton. She was b. in Hing. May 4, 1832. " Painter and glazier." Postmaster from 1863 to
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical), family entry no. 47. Read on archive.org ↗
Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
A photograph of the marker survives; see it on Find a Grave ↗.
This is what the record holds so far: gathered, sourced, and still growing. There is more of Edwin's life to recover, and some of what is shown above is matched, not certain. A correction or a family memory is a gift; submit a source, correction, or memory.
The stone is still there.