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Henry David WILDING

(15 Oct 1868 - 22 Mar 1948)

Henry David Wilding was born October 15, 1868 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The son of George Wilding and Mary Elizabeth Layne. Henry David was the tenth child and was referred to as the "tithing" child. The other children were Goerge Jr., David, Mary Alive, Rosilpha, Elizabeth Ann, Jennetta (Nettie), Preston, Elenor, Maggie, Henry David, Eve, Olive, and Walter Layne.

Henry David obtained his education by attending the schools which at that time was held in various wards of the city. At this time one had to pay tuition to atten school. At quite an early age, he started to work as a teamster.

Henry David Wilding met Eliza Hannah Oldham in 1887, and they were married on April 12, 1888 by a civil marriage. They did not need a marriage license at that time.

Their first child was a boy whom they named David, then Ellis and John. When John was six weeks old he had pneumonia. Dr. Charles Wilcocks was called. He told them there was very little hope for the child, and he asked if they believed in administration. Of course they did, and the baby was administered to with deep faith being shown. The babe did get well, and it was truly a testimony to the parents that this was the true gospel and the work of th Lord.

On August 17, 1893, they were sealed in the Sale Lake temple with their three children.

They lost their little home in Salt Lake and left to come up to Idaho on the 20th of September 1893, when John was nine months old. With their team and wagon, two or three dozen chickens, three children, and seventy-five cents in cash, they started on their way. They spent about fifteen days making the trip spending three days in Ogden and another three days in Idaho Falls. The rest of the time they camped at night wherever it was convenient.

In the words of Henry David Wilding, this is his story: "We arrived in Rexburg, Idaho October 5, 1893 and first settled in Hibbard Ward which at the time was Salem. We stayed the first few weeks with my oldest sister, Alice (who had come to Idaho three or four years before). We then spent the rest of the winter with friends. We shall never forget the kindness of friends and neighbors that gave us a smile and a helping hand.

In the spring I ran a farm north of Rexburg, belonging to Frank Bramwell. The next spring we moved back to Hibbard where I farmed for a year. The next year, I moved up to Salem, now Sugar City and operated a ranch known as the Salem Lands and Livestock Co. belonging to a company in Salt Lake of which J. W. Summerhays was superintendnet. We lived in a log house, and it was here that Vera and Lizzie Leone were born.

In about 1900, I bought some school land south of Sugar City on the banks of the Teton River. We built roads and bridges, pulling and burning sage brush to grow crops. Maggie Leatha was born hre in what we were building to become the stable later on.

We had our family so close together that Mother was down to not even a little shirt or diaper for the new baby. One of our older sisters sent a few warm clothes just before the baby came. We often thought of the surroundings of our Savior in the conditions we were in at this time. A little later on we built a little log cabin which was later used for a chicken coop. In this log house Harry, Frank, Vivian and Alice were born.

In 1909, we started to build a large house which we felt we needed for our family of eleven children and Mother and I made thirteen. The house had twleve rooms, including a bath and a full cement basement containing four rooms.

One night we went to conference and returned after dark. The water was so high in the river that the bridge was floating. The Rigby's and Parker's crossed, then we crossed, the last ones to do so. The next morning the bidge was washed out completely. Just across the bridge one of the horses fell in a washout up to his neck, ad the wagon just floated through the water. It was often so muddy that the horses could not pull a whole wagon, so I made a stiff tongue on the wagon and used only the two front wheels with a spring seat tied between them, and they would get to town in this manner.

The family had all been home until David accepted a call to fill a mission in Manchester, England. John left four years later, also to England. Each spent two years. While John was still on his mission, Earl was called to war, the first World War. While they were both away from home, Ellis died, leaving a wife and two smll children, Preston and Ruth.

At one time, I and John Oldham (Eliza's brother) opened a store and butcher shop in Rexburg where the courthouse now stands.

Once Henry saw the water run down Main Street and flood so badly that it ran into the kitchen of the Rands Hotel which was a block west of the courthouse. It ran in one door and out the other, all the time the cook was wading around in gum boots doing the cooking.

In later years, we bought a farm in Wyoming, just over the Idaho boundary line now called Pratt Ward where we spent three or four years, but as the children were getting married, we moved back to the smaller home that we had bought in Sugar City, after we sold our large home on he ranch by the Teton River. The large home was sold in 1918.

When Eliza was 52 years old, the year of 1920, she had rheumatism. It was months before she walked again. One day she was lying on the couch thinkingg of the power of faith and wondering if her faith was as strong as it had been in her youth and early married life when something said to her, "If you have faith, you can walk to the table." But she knew she would never be able to walk again because of her rheumatism. The voice said again, "Get up and walk." She did and walked from then on. That was such a testimony to her.

Henry David and Eliza Hannah were ideal companions and also parents of an ideal family. They were blessed to see their 50th wedding anniversary. There wasn't an open house held for them, but most of the family did call and pay love and respect to their parents, who by then were grandparents and even great grandparents of two or three children.

Three of their boys filled missions: David, John, and Earl. Up to 1956, there have been eleven children that have filled missions and one that is now filling one.

Eliza Hannah passed away on the 14th of March 1942 at her home in Sugar City at the age of 75. She was laid to rest in the Sugar City Cemetery.

Henry David then sold the home in Sugar City to a son, Frank O. and moved to Logan, Utah. He worked in the Logan teple where he met Katie Woodhead Gettis. She had lost her husband. They were married and were companions until Henry David passed away the 22nd of March 1948 in Logan, Utah. He was laid to rest in the Sugar City Cemetery.

Henry David Wilding was born October 15, 1868 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The son of George Wilding and Mary Elizabeth Layne. Henry David was the tenth child and was referred to as the "tithing" child. The other children were Goerge Jr., David, Mary Alive, Rosilpha, Elizabeth Ann, Jennetta (Nettie), Preston, Elenor, Maggie, Henry David, Eve, Olive, and Walter Layne.

Henry David obtained his education by attending the schools which at that time was held in various wards of the city. At this time one had to pay tuition to atten school. At quite an early age, he started to work as a teamster.

Henry David Wilding met Eliza Hannah Oldham in 1887, and they were married on April 12, 1888 by a civil marriage. They did not need a marriage license at that time.

Their first child was a boy whom they named David, then Ellis and John. When John was six weeks old he had pneumonia. Dr. Charles Wilcocks was called. He told them there was very little hope for the child, and he asked if they believed in administration. Of course they did, and the baby was administered to with deep faith being shown. The babe did get well, and it was truly a testimony to the parents that this was the true gospel and the work of th Lord.

On August 17, 1893, they were sealed in the Sale Lake temple with their three children.

They lost their little home in Salt Lake and left to come up to Idaho on the 20th of September 1893, when John was nine months old. With their team and wagon, two or three dozen chickens, three children, and seventy-five cents in cash, they started on their way. They spent about fifteen days making the trip spending three days in Ogden and another three days in Idaho Falls. The rest of the time they camped at night wherever it was convenient.

In the words of Henry David Wilding, this is his story: "We arrived in Rexburg, Idaho October 5, 1893 and first settled in Hibbard Ward which at the time was Salem. We stayed the first few weeks with my oldest sister, Alice (who had come to Idaho three or four years before). We then spent the rest of the winter with friends. We shall never forget the kindness of friends and neighbors that gave us a smile and a helping hand.

In the spring I ran a farm north of Rexburg, belonging to Frank Bramwell. The next spring we moved back to Hibbard where I farmed for a year. The next year, I moved up to Salem, now Sugar City and operated a ranch known as the Salem Lands and Livestock Co. belonging to a company in Salt Lake of which J. W. Summerhays was superintendnet. We lived in a log house, and it was here that Vera and Lizzie Leone were born.

In about 1900, I bought some school land south of Sugar City on the banks of the Teton River. We built roads and bridges, pulling and burning sage brush to grow crops. Maggie Leatha was born hre in what we were building to become the stable later on.

We had our family so close together that Mother was down to not even a little shirt or diaper for the new baby. One of our older sisters sent a few warm clothes just before the baby came. We often thought of the surroundings of our Savior in the conditions we were in at this time. A little later on we built a little log cabin which was later used for a chicken coop. In this log house Harry, Frank, Vivian and Alice were born.

In 1909, we started to build a large house which we felt we needed for our family of eleven children and Mother and I made thirteen. The house had twleve rooms, including a bath and a full cement basement containing four rooms.

One night we went to conference and returned after dark. The water was so high in the river that the bridge was floating. The Rigby's and Parker's crossed, then we crossed, the last ones to do so. The next morning the bidge was washed out completely. Just across the bridge one of the horses fell in a washout up to his neck, ad the wagon just floated through the water. It was often so muddy that the horses could not pull a whole wagon, so I made a stiff tongue on the wagon and used only the two front wheels with a spring seat tied between them, and they would get to town in this manner.

The family had all been home until David accepted a call to fill a mission in Manchester, England. John left four years later, also to England. Each spent two years. While John was still on his mission, Earl was called to war, the first World War. While they were both away from home, Ellis died, leaving a wife and two smll children, Preston and Ruth.

At one time, I and John Oldham (Eliza's brother) opened a store and butcher shop in Rexburg where the courthouse now stands.

Once Henry saw the water run down Main Street and flood so badly that it ran into the kitchen of the Rands Hotel which was a block west of the courthouse. It ran in one door and out the other, all the time the cook was wading around in gum boots doing the cooking.

In later years, we bought a farm in Wyoming, just over the Idaho boundary line now called Pratt Ward where we spent three or four years, but as the children were getting married, we moved back to the smaller home that we had bought in Sugar City, after we sold our large home on he ranch by the Teton River. The large home was sold in 1918.

When Eliza was 52 years old, the year of 1920, she had rheumatism. It was months before she walked again. One day she was lying on the couch thinkingg of the power of faith and wondering if her faith was as strong as it had been in her youth and early married life when something said to her, "If you have faith, you can walk to the table." But she knew she would never be able to walk again because of her rheumatism. The voice said again, "Get up and walk." She did and walked from then on. That was such a testimony to her.

Henry David and Eliza Hannah were ideal companions and also parents of an ideal family. They were blessed to see their 50th wedding anniversary. There wasn't an open house held for them, but most of the family did call and pay love and respect to their parents, who by then were grandparents and even great grandparents of two or three children.

Three of their boys filled missions: David, John, and Earl. Up to 1956, there have been eleven children that have filled missions and one that is now filling one.

Eliza Hannah passed away on the 14th of March 1942 at her home in Sugar City at the age of 75. She was laid to rest in the Sugar City Cemetery.

Henry David then sold the home in Sugar City to a son, Frank O. and moved to Logan, Utah. He worked in the Logan teple where he met Katie Woodhead Gettis. She had lost her husband. They were married and were companions until Henry David passed away the 22nd of March 1948 in Logan, Utah. He was laid to rest in the Sugar City Cemetery.

(Research): Buried in the Sugar City Cemetery, Plot 03, Lot 19, Grave 01 middle of area, south -westerm area of cemetery.

Wildings in Sugar City Amy Ann Shirley Baby Benjamin Ray David Dewayne Earl Raymond Edna Eliza Hannah Oldham Ellis Preston Ellis Ray Eula Wingard Florence H. Frank Oldham George David \\ng Henry David Jane Mahalia Nave John H June Merle Lavinia Lela Pincock Malcum Merrill Lynn Nathaniel Ransom Norma Louise Vincent Norman D. Shirley Stanley B. Thomas Preston Vera Von Vincent Yordis Ida Marie Holstrom end of Wildings...............

No Oldhams in Sugar City Cemetery. FIELD NAME Page

Events

Birth15 Oct 1868Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Marriage12 Apr 1888Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States - Eliza Hannah OLDHAM
Marriage4 Oct 1944, Salt Lake, Utah, United States - Living
Death22 Mar 1948Logan, Cache, Utah
Burial26 Mar 1948Sugar City Cemetery, Sugar City, Madison, Idaho
Ancestral File Number1GGB-F2

Families

SpouseLiving
SpouseEliza Hannah OLDHAM (1867 - 1942)
ChildLizzie Leone WILDING (1898 - 1988)
ChildDavid Rawlin WILDING (1888 - 1940)
ChildEllis Preston WILDING (1890 - 1918)
ChildJohn Henry WILDING (1893 - 1985)
ChildEarl Raymond WILDING (1894 - 1897)
ChildEliza Vera WILDING (1896 - 1985)
ChildMaggie Leatha WILDING (1900 - 1951)
ChildHarry Oldham WILDING (1902 - 1986)
ChildFrank Oldham WILDING (1903 - 1975)
ChildMary Vivian WILDING (1905 - 1936)
ChildAlice Eleanor WILDING (1907 - )
FatherGeorge WILDING (1829 - 1913)
MotherMary Elizabeth LAYNE (1832 - 1909)
SiblingGeorge WILDING (1851 - 1898)
SiblingDavid WILDING (1853 - 1854)
SiblingMary Alice WILDING (1854 - 1919)
SiblingRoselpha WILDING (1857 - 1934)
SiblingElizabeth Ann WILDING (1859 - 1935)
SiblingJenetta WILDING (1860 - 1939)
SiblingPreston WILDING (1862 - 1863)
SiblingEleanor WILDING (1864 - 1946)
SiblingMaggie WILDING (1866 - 1941)
SiblingEve WILDING (1870 - 1957)
SiblingOlive WILDING (1873 - 1875)
SiblingWalter Layne WILDING (1875 - 1964)

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