Jonas Wilder, Sr. (I)

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Jonas Wilder, Sr. (I)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: April 15, 1796 (94)
West Hartland, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: West Hartland, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John Wilder, II and Sarah Wilder
Husband of Eunice Thornton Wilder and Eunice Houghton Wilder
Father of Joseph Wilder; Pricilla Hougton Harrington; Jonas Wilder; Sarah (Wilder) Tiffany; Pvt. Gamaliel Beaman Wilder, Rev. War Vet. and 1 other
Brother of Josiah Wilder, Sr.; Mary Powers; Hannah Wilder, Died Young; Jonathan Wilder; John Wilder, III and 2 others

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About Jonas Wilder, Sr. (I)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83186298/jonas-wilder
Mother: Sarah White (10/21/1680 - 5/13/1719?) Her parents: Josiah and Mary Rice White of Massachusetts.

Eunice Beaman Wilder
Jonas Wilder (1699-1796 # 83186298) married 1st Eunice Beaman (1702 [baptised 1708] d 1731 Lancaster, Worcester, MA) daughter of John Beaman (1649/50-1739/40) & Priscilla Thornton (1656-1729) [Genealogy of Gamaliel Beaman & Sarah Clark].
Jonas Wilder married 2nd Eunice Beaman (1715-1801 d CT # 83186234), his first wife's niece, who was the daughter of her brother Gamaliel Beaman & his wife Mary Houghton.
The marker has Eunice d 1801 aged 92 years which equals born 1715. The second wife is buried with him.

Per Book of the Wilders. by Rev. Moses H. Wilder, published 1878, pg. 203: "Jonas Wilder (s. John 3, John 2, Thomas 1), born in Lancaster. In 1733 he removed to Lyme, Conn., and in 1760 to Hartland, where he was a farmer and a leading citizen until he died, in 1797, at the age of 98 years; m. 1st, 1724."

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Jonas Wilder, Sr. (I)'s Timeline

1701
November 16, 1701
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
1724
1724
1729
April 11, 1729
Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
1731
May 9, 1731
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
1738
August 13, 1738
Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
1743
August 2, 1743
Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1749
1749
Lyme, New London, Connecticut, USA
1796
April 15, 1796
Age 94
West Hartland, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States