The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-11-22

Woodensburg, 4th District.-Miss Mar
| garet Wilderson, whose death was noted in
| last weeks UNION as having occurred in Cleve-
land Ohio, at the advanced age of SO years.
was sister of the late Samuel Wilderson, of
| this county, and an aunt of Messrs. Orrick
| W. and John Gent, of Chestnut Ridge. and of
Mr.. Samuel Gent, the contractor. She and
her brothers, John and Henry Wilderson,
emigrated from this county, and not from
Baltimore, to Ohio.
A letter from Mrs. David Lewis, daughter
of Mr.. John Wilderson mentioned in the dis
patch published in THE UNION as a surviving
brother, who is, as the dispatch stated, 81 years
of age, received by Mr.. Joseph Trainor of
Washington Just before the late G.. A. r. en-
campment in that city, stated that she would
not be able to attend the encampment because
of the extreme feebleness'' of her Aunt Mar
garet, miss Margaret Wilderson) of whom she
had charge at her home in Kansas. Mr..
Trainor had invited Mr. and Mrs. Lewis to be
his guests in Washington during the encamp-
ment, in return for the courtesy of a like invi
tation to be their guests last year when the en-
campment was held in Cleveland.
There are still Wildersons of the younger
generation living in Maryland some of them
in Baltimore CITY The wife of the late George
Gore, of Baltimore county, Mrs. Catherine
Gore, who died from an accident year or two
before the Civil War, and whose death was
shortly followed by that of her husband, was
a member of the elder Wilderson family-there
being six or seven brothers and sisters, as fol-
lows John, Henry, Catharine, Samuel, Ann
and Margaret. but these are not mentioned in
the order of their ages
Mrs. Ann Gent, relict of the late John Gent,
who was the eldest of the living trio of the
family, up to his recent death, being % years
old, is the mother of Messrs. Orrick w. and
John Gent, of Chestnut RIDGE and Mr.. Sam
uel Gent She lives with her son Orrick, on
Chestnut Ridge and is said to still perfectly re-
tain her mental faculties, although partially
bed-ridden for the last few years. The recent
death of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Hannah
Gent, wife of Mr.. Orrick W. Gent, is said to
have been great shock to her.
Mr.. Henry Slicer Gore of Worthington Val
ley, and also Mrs. Priscilla Grammar and Mrs.
Ada Coleman, of Baltimore and Mrs. Mar
Mrs. Catherine Gore. Her deceased children
were the late George Gore, Jr., Mrs. Martin
Barr, and Mrs. Julia A. Duncan the latter the
mother of Mrs. Richard Bernard, of Balti-
more, Mrs. Catherine W. Trainor, late wife of
Mr.. Joseph Trainor, (who took the full maiden
name of her MISUNDERSTANDING Wilder
SOM; Miss Georgia A. Duncan, lately deceased,
and Mr.. ]. Marion Duncan, of this place.
The longevity of the elder Wilderson family
was remarkable, they all living to ripe age,
except the one who died of an accident, as
shown by the long life of the two members
still living and the one Just deceased as we'll
as the others who have passed away.
The oyster supper that was held at the M.
P. Church at this place netted profit of about
SAB, which will be used in liquidating the debt
on the church.
Ex-President Melvin. of the NJ. P Confer
ence, preached at the M. P. Church here last
Sunday. He is soliciting an interest in the
endowment fund for the Western Mary land
College, of Westminster, Md.
This place is enjoying boom" at present.
Two new houses are in course of erection and
probably others will soon follow. E.