Jeremiah Wilber
ID # 3937, (1797-1867)
| Birth | Jeremiah Wilber was born in 1797 at New York State. |
| Marriage | He married Susan Kitchen. |
| Death | He died on 26 March 1867 at Michigan. |
| Burial | He was buried at Commerce Village Burying Ground, Oakland Co., Michigan. |
| Note | Jeremiah Wilber appears in the 1832 census of Dumfries Township east of the Grand River. In this record, he does not appear to own property. This may or may not be correct. The Dickson Papers have yet to be examined as well as the Abstract Indexes for the township. Jeremiah was probably in possession of property in the township well prior to 1832. The abstract indexes are likely the best source of information for this, especially as we have the following:. Jeremiah Wilber appears in the 1842 census of Dumfries Township and is shown as the owner of lot 7 on the 2nd concession. Jeremiah Wilber appears in the 1851 agricultural census of South Dumfries Township, Brant County, and is said to hold all 200 acres of lot 7 on the 2nd concession. In the every person portion of this census, he appears as age 55, born 'States'. With him is wife Susan, same age. They also have with them daughters Jane 25, Eliza 18, and Susan 13. Jeremiah is not present in South Dumfries at the time of the 1861 census, though his wife Susan is present. Both Jeremiah and Susan, however, are present in the 1860 U.S. census at West Bloomfield in Oakland County, Michigan. There, they are both shown as 63 and he is a farmer. Apparently he died there in 1867 and is buried in Commerce Village Burying Ground. A photo of his stone appears on Find-a-Grave. Susan is buried in St. George Baptist Cemetery. A photo of her stone is provided by CanGenWeb. Beyond that, some notes for purposes of research: Jeremiah and Susan had a son Wm. Hezekiah Wilber. His name appears as such on his restored gravestone in Pioneer Presbyterian Cemetery in St. George. Earlier photos of this stone have it flat on the ground and partially under sod. Ontario headstone photos shows the stone as of 2015. A portion of the stone is worn and his date of death unreadable. What is readable does tell us that he is the son of Jeremiah and that he was apparently 25 when he died. Jeremiah's father was apparently also named Hezekiah and, while what follows is unproven, an argument may be made that has at least some logic. Hezekiah and Jeremiah Wilber were enumerated on the same page of the 1820 U.S. census taken at Newport, Herkimer County, New York. Hezekiah is at Norway in Herkimer County in 1810, and he is in Herkimer County in 1840. In 1850, he and wife Mary are at Ohio Town in Herkimer County and he is shown as 76 and Mary (please note) as 70. They are both born in New York. With them is Mary Snyder, age 26, born New York, and Eliza Wilber, 16, born Canada. Neither Mary nor Eliza are of an age to be children of Hezekiah and Mary and at least Eliza will be a grand daughter. We have no death information for Hezekiah of Herkimer nor burial information. Mary is almost certainly another matter. The 1861 census at South Dumfries shows a Mary Wilber age 85, born U.States. The handwriting for her age is interpreted by Ancestry as 95 and by Familysearch as 85. A close examination suggests that Familysearch has the rights of it. Mary is in the household of Charles and Rachel Wilber. The Archives of Ontario has the following death registration. It wasn't filed until 1870 and so appears as an 1870 registration in their records, but the death was in December of 1869. It reads as follows: Death reg. 003915-70 South Dumfries, Brant Co. Mary Wilber died Dec. 29, 1869. Age 92, widow, Baptist. Born New York State. Cause of death Erysipelas. Physician James Stimson. Informant Charles Wilber, farmer South Dumfries. Date registered July 2, 1870. It's difficult to escape the conclusion that this is Mary Wilber who was in Herkimer County with husband Hezekiah in 1850. This places Mary's birth to approximately 1777 and the death registration and the 1850 U.S. census very roughly agree about her age. |
Children of Jeremiah Wilber and Susan Kitchen |
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| Last Edited | 1 Aug 2018 |