Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wilder, Elvira H. (Heath)   1906 May 5, 1906
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Belding News – Thursday, 10 May 1906
WILDER, Elvira H. (Heath)   1906
DOD:  Saturday, 5 May 1906
Belding News – Thursday, 10 May 1906

Mrs. Elvira H. Wilder, mother of W. A. Wilder and Mrs. T. Frank Ireland, and 
who for years has been a helpless invalid, died Saturday morning in the 
eightieth year of her age, passing peacefully from the earthly tenement of 
flesh into, the region beyond where no cares assail nor pains travail.

The funeral services were held at the home of her son, W. A. Wilder, Rev. J. 
W. Sheehan having charge of the services and making a short but eloquent and 
sympathetic address.  A quartette from the Baptist church choir sang 
appropriate heart-touching melodies in fitting manner.  Interment was in 
Riverside cemetery.  Following is a brief sketch of the life of decedent:  
Mrs. Elvira Heath was born in Heath, Mass., January 27, 1826, and died in 
Belding, Mich., May 5, 1906.  She was a daughter of Horace and Anna C. Benton, 
who afterward moved to Shelburne Falls where she received her education.  
After finishing her course in the academy she taught school four years, after 
which she was married to Orrin Hewitt in 1849.  To this union was given one 
son, George F. Hewitt, now of Boone, Iowa. 

After Mr. Hewitt’s death she came, with her parents, to Lee County, Ill., and 
in March, 1855, was married to Alfred L. Wilder of Sublette, Ill.  To this 
union were born four children, W. A. Wilder, Mrs. T. Frank Ireland of this 
city, Arabella who died at four years of age, and R. A. Wilder whose home is 
in Osceola, Iowa.  Her home was in Subletta, Ill, until coming to Belding, 
Mich., in 1889.  For thirty-five years of her life she has been an invalid and 
since coming to Belding has been confined to her room a greater part of these 
years.  Her husband, until his death, devoted his time exclusively to caring 
for her, and since he departed this life she has been tenderly cared for by 
other loving hands, until Saturday morning, May 5, 1906, when, at four o’clock 
she quietly passed away at the age of eighty years.

She became a Christian in early life, uniting with the Baptist Church at the 
age of eleven and was a consistent member of that denomination until her 
death, having united with the Belding Baptist church by letter when she came 
to this city.  She possessed a bright, happy nature, was a faithful wife, a 
loving mother and a kind neighbor.  Until afflicted with disease she took an 
active part in church and Sabbath school work, always being counted upon as 
one to be depended on whenever or wherever duty called.  Although it was hard 
for her to give up this active, stirring life, still she was resigned and 
cheerful during these last years, bowing submissively to the will of Him 
who “doeth all things well.”



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