Person:Oliver Wilder (3)

Name	Oliver Wilder
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	Abt 1694
Marriage	Abt 1713	to Mary Fairbank
Marriage	2 Aug 1749	Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rebecca Prescott
Death^[2]^[3]	16 Mar 1765	Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
452.

[from sundry sources supposed reliable]
Oliver, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Sawyer) Wilder at Sudbury --- 1694?
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Holman, Mary Lovering; Winifred Lovering Holman; and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife, Frances Helen Miller: Compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1948, 1952)
46.

30 Mar 1709, Mary Wilder appointed guardian to son Oliver, a minor in his sixteenth year [birth about 1694]. 16 Jun 1713, Ephraim Wilder appointed guardian of his brother Oliver, a minor in this twentieth year [birth about 1694].
[This source gives a death date of 8 Mar 1763 which appears to be wrong.]
↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
400.

[#43] Here lies interred ye Body of Col. Oliver Wilder who died March ye 16 A Domini 1765, in the 71 Year of his Age.
The stroke of Death hath laid my Head,
Down in this Dark & Silent Bed;
The Trump shall sound, I hope to rise
And meet my Saviour in the Skies.
[Age 70, so born about 1694-5.]