Dedication

This website is dedicated to the Chelsea & Zella Wildern
family and their descendants.

Website Info

Thank you for visiting!

This website is maintained by Bill Smedley. I'm the son of the late Amert Wildern-Smedley.  My mother inspired and encourage me to work on the Wildern Family genealogy, but she never saw the Wildern website.  She didn't even know about the 'World Wide Web' and she never saw a web browser. 

Any input or suggestions you have would be appreciated.

I hope you enjoy your stay,

-Bill

12/20/2022     UPDATE

This website has been in existence for over twenty years. During that time the underlying parts have begun to depreciate, and some of the parts no longer work at all. Could you imagine a twenty-year-old car that wouldn’t need work? Even if you kept it in a garage and didn’t drive it, it would probably need some maintenance before you could drive it. In some cases, you might not be able to find a replacement part. That describes where I’m at trying to revive this website. It's important to me, so it will get fixed, but nothing in the website business has stood still. Some of the components and plugins I used need to be updated or replaced, and the antique template is no longer available, so there’s going to some changes in the future as the website is updated.

Please update your bookmark to https://wildern.website.

Thank you,

Bill Smedley

Ellen Lenora

 

Ellen Lenora 'Nora' Wildern

Harmons - Thanksgiving 1941
The Harmons - Thanksgiving 1941


Ellen Lenora 'Nora' Wildern was born January 25, 1874 in Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada. She married Clyde Edwin Harmon, born October 2, 1868 on September 23, 1896 in Charlotte, Michigan. Nora and Edwin had two children, Robert Lyle Harmon, born May 17, 1905 in Charlotte, Michigan and Donald Austin Harmon, born July 29, 1906 in Charlotte Michigan. Robert Lyle married Jeanette Spath, born June 4, 1910 on January 19, 1937 in Jackson, Michigan. They had two children, Annette Ellen Harmon, born in Jackson, Michigan and Christine Lynne Harmon, born in Tucson, Arizona. Donald Austin married Constance Elizabeth Worden, born November 6, 1910 on October 19, 1935 in Grass Lake, Michigan. They had two children, Barbara Jean Harmon, born in Jackson, Michigan. She died 12 days later and Richard Allan Harmon, born in Jackson, Michigan.

Annette Ellen, daughter of Robert Lyle and Jeanette Spath would have been six months old at the time this photograph was taken. She's probably the baby in the picture, above. If so, the mother would be Jeanette Spath and the man on the far left touching the baby would more than likely be Robert Lyle. The three ladies center in the second row are Chelsea's sisters Nora, Florence and Jennie.


Chelsea's Siblings
Chelsea's sister, Florence, Job's sister, Ethel (seated), George Raymond,
Jennie, Cassie Velsey and Nora

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