WILDER, B. F., Beeville Bee, Friday, 20 Jan 1909:

B. F. Wilder, an old citizen of this county and veteran of the Civil War, died at his home in this 
city yesterday morning after a brief illness of pneumonia. The deceased was in his seventy-second 
year and was a native of Georgia. 

His service in the war was with the fourteenth Alabama Regiment and he participated in all the 
engagements of the Army in Virginia. After the war he moved to Texas settling in Bell County 
and from there he moved to Beeville in 1899. 

He is survived by a wife and six children, three sons and three daughters. The eldest, J.A. Wilder 
lives in Heidenheimer, J. W. is an engineer on the Aransas Pass Railroad and Rufus Wilder is a 
resident of Beeville. All of the daughters are residents of Arkansas. Mrs. W. M. Richey lives in 
Benton, Mrs. T. J. Brown in Woodson and Mrs. Jas. Ray is in Little Rock. 

The funeral of Mr. Wilder will take place this morning from the family residence at 10:30 o'clock 
and the interment in the new cemetery. Mr. Wilder was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church 
and the Masonic Fraternity. He was a man of quiet disposition and was esteemed highly by all 
his acquaintances.