Newhanover-Onslow County NcArchives Obituaries.....Wilder, Jesse December 9, 1914 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Gibson bgibson@uncfsu.edu July 1, 2006, 10:03 pm Wilmington Mor ning Star - Friday, December 11, 1914 FUNERAL OF CAPT. WILDER Services Conducted From Orton Hotel Yesterday Afternoon--Many Expressions of Sorrow. The funeral of Capt. Jesse Wilder, whose death occurred Wednesday afternoon, was held yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Orton Hotel parlors. The services were attended by a large number of friends and were conducted by Rev. Dr. A. D. McClue, pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church. The interment was in Bellevue cemetery and was with Masonic honors. The pallbearers were: Gen. James I. Metts and Messrs. Herbert McClammy, R. C. Cantwell, S. M. Boatwright, John S. McEachern and A. S. Holden, all of these being members of S. John's Lodge of Masons, of which the deceased was a member for nearly a half century. Members of Cape Fear chapter, United Confederate Veterans, attended the funeral in a body. A delegation of Pythians also attended the funeral. A quartette composed of Mrs. Muse, Miss Carrie White and Messrs. A. S. Holden and A. L. Dosher sang "Asleep in Jesus" and "Abide With Me." All of the naval stores enterprises in Wilmington closed at 1 o'clock for the funeral. Captain Wilder was chairman of the naval stores committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and on account of his death there were no market quotations yesterday. There were many beautiful and elaborate floral designs sent by friends and by the organizations of which the deceased was a member. The members of the office force of the Galena Oil Company in Atlanta, Ga., sent a design and there were also designs from the Capt [Cape] Fear club, of which Captain Wilder was a member, St. John's Lodge of Masons, Stonewall Lodge, Knights of Pythias, the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, the Columbia Naval Stores Company, and a number of designs from individuals, including one from Mr. H. C. McQueen, who was a colleague of Captain Wilder on the old board of audit and finance of the city of Wilmington. Col. George L. Morton, a nephew of the deceased, was not present at the funeral, as he is in Texas inspecting oil wells and could not be located. A telegram was received from him late yesterday afternoon stating that he had just learned of Captain Wilder's death. The colored employes [employees] of the turpentine distilleries on Eagles' Island attended the funeral in a body. The only near relatives surviving Captain Wilder besides Col. George L. Morton, a nephew, who was for so many years associated with the [The following line of type was entered upside down & backwards.] deceased in business are Miss Eliza [End of upside down line of text.] Morton, a great niece, who was a constant attendant at his bedside during his last illness, and his great nephew George L. Morton, Jr. Captain Wilder married Miss Fanny Ellis, who died about 40 years ago. Additional Comments: Jesse Wilder was the son of Abram & Eliza Wilder (Onslow County and Wilmington, NC). His sister Mary Carrie Wilder (Whitehurst) married Stephen H. Morton after the death of her first husband. Jesse Wilder reached the rank of Lieutenant in the 4th NC Cavalry during the Civil War. Stephen H. Morton was also a Lieutenant in the 3rd NC Cavalry by the end of the War. After the war, Jesse returned to Wilmington, NC where he started a successful business in turpentine distilling. The business was located on Nutt Street, and his father, a "cooper," worked with him in the family business. Widowed before the Civil War, Stephen H. Morton married Mary Carrie Wilder in 1866 and their first child, George Lee, was born later that same year. They moved to Wilmington, from Onslow County, about 1871 and S.H. Morton would go into business with his brother-in-law, Jesse. A short history of the life of the turpentine distilling business started by Jesse Wilder and later owned by George Lee Morton, Sr. is included in the pamphlet, "Wilmington Up to Date" (1902), which can be found online. His father, Abram Wilder, died in December of 1884. S.H. Morton died at the end of May 1886. George Lee Morton, Sr. moved his family to Atlanta, GA about 1910 to be a regional manager for the Galena Oil Company. Eliza Ward Morton, the daughter of George Lee, Sr. and Eliza Ward (of Onslow County), later married Mordecai Levi Woodward. She was 10 days shy of her 21st birthday at the time of Capt. Wilder's death. Her brother, George Lee, Jr., the son of Mildred Gracey Thompson, never married. He was 7 years old at the time of Capt. Wilder's death. Abram, Jesse & Mary Carrie Wilder are buried together with Stephen H. Morton, George Lee, Sr. & Jr. in the S.H. Morton burial plots of Bellevue Cemetery in Wilmington, NC. Jesse's markers remind of his service as a Lieutenant during the Civil War. Born in 1839, he died 09 December, 1914. "Rev. Dr. A. D. McClue" His last name was shown as "McClure" in a separate obituary. A notice on the same page of the obituary lists the following information: "The regular meeting of Cape Fear Camp, No. 254, United Confederate Veterans, will be held in the W. L. I. armory this evening at 8 o'clock." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/newhanover/obits/w/wilder243gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb