Nettie Alice Wilder

Brief Life History of Nettie Alice

When Nettie Alice Wilder was born on 2 March 1869, in Granger Township, Medina, Ohio, United States, her father, Nathan Thomas Wilder, was 25 and her mother, Sarah A Nettleton, was 23. She married Harry Cooper Cunningham on 25 August 1897, in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Florence Township, Erie, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Riga, Monroe, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 2 April 1945, in Clyde, Sandusky, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Clyde, Sandusky, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harry Cooper Cunningham
1872–1932
Nettie Alice Wilder
1869–1945
Marriage: 25 August 1897
Edna Louise Cunningham
1901–1985
Nathan Wilder Cunningham
1903–1972

Sources (18)

  • Nettie A Cunningham, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Nettie Wilder Cunningham, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
  • Nettie Cunningham Galpin, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wild 3.

English (South eastern England, especially Berkshire): probably a nickname from Old English wildēor ‘wild animal’.

History: Thomas Wilder is recorded as a freeman of Charlestown, MA, in 1640. He had numerous prominent descendents.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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