High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Crocker Wilder Jr.
5 May 1802 – 19 Dec 1875 · about 73 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Crocker Wilder Jr. lived from 5 May 1802 to 19 Dec 1875, a span of about 73 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
SiblingsDeborah Wilder Kilby1796–1869 · Martha Collamore Wilder Tower1797–1875 · Hannah Wilder Clapp1799–1871 · Lydia Wilder Whiton1801–1864 · Eunice Wilder Fearing1807–1891 · Sarah Wilder Gardner1809–1882
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: Crocker › Jabez › Theophilus › Jabez › Edward.
Matched exact birth date in their own Wilder family entry (no. 51), corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
51. Crocker6 (Crocker6 Jabez4 Theophilus3 Jabez2 Edward1), b. in Hing. May 5, 1802. m. Oct. 9, 1828, Mary Ann Spooner, dau. of William and Lydia (Bryant) Spooner of Boston. She d. in Hing. 22 Dec. 1882, aet. 83 yrs. He d. 19 Dec, 1875, aet. 74th yr. " Manuf'r of pails," and for sev. yrs. president of the Hing. Nat! Bank. Rep- resentative at the General Court, 1863, 1864, and
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical), family entry no. 51. 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 Crocker'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.