Joseph Abraham Wilding was born 19 October 1876 at Salt Lake City, Utah, Hunter Ward. He was the second son and also the second child born to his parents, George Wilding, Jr., and Sarah Brown Wilding. A family of 14 children, he had three sisters and ten brothers.
George David - Born 11 Sep 1875, died 28 Jul 1954
Joseph Abraham - Born 19 Oct 1876, died 5 June 1943
Heber Born -7 Feb 1878, died 16 Dec 1963
William Born - 1879, died
Charles H Born - 6 June 1880, died 2 July 1906
Thomas Edward - Born 26 June 1882, died 15 July 1959
Laurence Roy - Born 11 Feb 1884, died 23 Feb 1951
James Albert - Born 2 Apr 1886, died 16 May 1939
Mary Elizabeth - Born 12 Mar 1889, died 30 Jan 1952
Lester Layne - Born 12 Jan 1891, died
Alice - Born 6 Apr 1892, died 1 June 1960
Harvey - Born 3 June 1894, died 28 Sep 1955
Eva - Born 1 Mar 1896, died 6 Aug 1974
Wilford - Born 7 Sep 1897, died 24 Feb 1910
(Joseph Abraham is on back row far right)
As father was next to the oldest and grandpa died leaving such a large family and father didn't marry until he was 33 years old, it fell to him to help all he could to support the family. He was always good to his mother and his family all loved and respected him.
Joseph was baptized 3 November 1885 by John Cotton; and confirmed 5 November 1885 by Fredrick Kessler. The family lived in Hunter Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah. He had little schooling and worked at what he could to earn a living.
He was endowed in the Salt Lake Temple 18 December 1901 before serving a two year mission in the Southwestern States Mission in Texas, January 8, 1902. The missionaries traveled without purse or script and depended on the people being good enough to give them food and a place to sleep. He was released from his mission in 1904.
Missionary pictureHe worked as a conductor on the street-cars in Salt Lake City. He had some trouble with his back and decided to find some other work. He went up to the Downey area, where he met Eliza Ann Barnes, whom he later married 19 October 1909. They were married in a double wedding ceremony with her sister, Cora and Joseph Jensen at Pocatello, Idaho. They moved to Salt Lake for a short time and had their marriage solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple 10 November 1909.
They came back to Downey where Joseph homesteaded a dry farm and built a two room house. They lived there until November 1918. Our household water had to be hauled in large wooden barrels and stored in a cistern. We attended the Woodland Ward church. We had smallpox in the spring of 1915. Father had them real bad and Leo just had one spot on his entire body.
Father would go away each spring to shear sheep to help earn extra money. He trapped coyotes on his farm so they would not molest the animals.
In November 1918 the folks decided to move to Rexburg, Idaho. We moved on the train and the flu was so bad that year that we all wore little gauze flu masks over our faces. There were five children, Vada, Harold, Leo, Orvil and Louis at this time. We moved to a house about one mile north of Rexburg, owned by Uncle George. After living in Rexburg awhile father bought a farm at Archer, Idaho and we lived there about a year and then moved back to Rexburg.
Father still sheared sheep each spring and also worked for a butcher. Stanley was born at Archer, and was never very strong and healthy and he died at 11 months old of malnutrition on 23 October 1920.
Sarah was born in Rexburg. We then moved to Milo where we lived for the rest of father's life. Jesse Reed, Lynn and Della were born after we moved to Milo. Jesse only lived two weeks.
We lived near the Milo church and father helped on the recreation committee and had charge of the ward dances, he always enjoyed dancing. We moved to another farm in Milo owned by Bishop Parley J. Davis, and as he had enough boys to help on the farm he needed very little hired help. The neighbors exchanged help too. The family moved once more to the place where Harold now lives.
Joseph served in the Sunday School Superintendency and also in the Bishopric. He worked very hard to help establish the Milo Cemetery District.
His health began to fail and mother cared for him at home until his death 5 June 1943. The family consisted of ten children in this order:
Vada - Born 20 August 1910
Harold - Born 2 February 1912
Leo - Born 17 October 1913, died 25 January 1964
Orvil - Born 24 December 1915
Louis - Born 9 Nov 1917
Stanley - Born 18 Nov 1919, died 23 Oct 1920
Sarah - Born 10 January 1921
Jesse Reed - Born 10 December 1922, died 24 December 1922
Lynn - Born 22 January 1926, died 20 February 1958
Della - Born 9 August 1928
(See this family picture on Harold Joseph's page)
Stanley is buried in Sugar City Cemetery; Jesse Reed, father and mother in Milo Cemetery, Leo in Ammon Cemetery and Lynn in Cloverdale Memorial Park, Boise, Idaho
Eliza Ann and Joseph Abraham about 1941
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