Elmira Vader (Meeker) Hedden (1832 - 1907)

Born 8 Jun 1832 in New Jersey, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Viner J Hedden — married 1851 in New Jersey, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Apr 1907 at age 74 in East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Elmira was born in 1832.

She passed away in 1907.

"Family records; or, Genealogies of the first settlers of Passaic Valley..." by J. D. Felt, 1851, page 283

CALEB MEEKER, (son of Isaiah,) and Charity Frost, had children:

• 1. Polly, who married Amos Wilcox, son of John Willcox, Jun., and died 27th Nov. 1831, leaving a son, Theodore, who married ––– ––– and lives in N. Y.
• 2. Nancy; 3. Betsey Townley; 4. Charity Frost, who all three died young.
• 5. Caleb Halsey Merker, who married Hannah Gillam, daughter of John, son of James Gillam, and had children:
  • 1. Albert, 2. Harriet; 3. Almira; 4. Mary; 5. Emma.
• 6. Jonathan Magie Meeker married, 1st, Almira Voder; 2d, Mary Elizabeth Delliger, of N. Y., and had children:
  • 1. Frederick; 2. Mary; 3. Alvin; 4 William; 5. Theodore; 6. Ellis.
• 7. Isaac, born 8th Dec. 1811, married Mehetabel Barnet Willcox, daughter of John, 31, and had children:
  • 1. Sarah Anne, who married, 27th Feb. 1850, Benjamin Spinning, son of John, [see ‘’Spinning’’;] 2. John Lewis Meeker 3. Charity Frost Meeker; 4. Isaac Henry Meeker; 5. William Francis Meeker.

The New York Times (New York, New York) Sun, Apr 28, 1907, Page 9

Mrs. ELMIRA V. HEDDEN, wife ef Viner J. Redden, President of the V. J. Hedden & Sons Company of Newark, N. J., died on Friday at her home in Munn Avenue, East Orange. She was a direct descendant of Jonathan Meeker, who settled in New Jersey in 1631. She had lived in East Orange for fifty years, and she and Mr. Hedden celebrated their golden jubilee in 1901. She leaves a widower and nine children.

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