A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Ida was born in 1866 and passed away in 1900.
From the biography of A.B. Wilder:Mr. Wilder married December 21, 1885, to Ida Barnum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Barnum, prominent farmers and pioneers of Lyle Township. Mrs. Ida Wilder died November 25, 1900 leaving three children: Vera M. now a student in Carleton College, Minnesota; Maurine, who is at Stanley Hall, Minneapolis, and Irving L. who is at home. July 2, 1902 Mr. Wilder married Grace E. Trowbridge, of Lyle Township, daughter of H.C. Trowbridge.
== Obituary ==[from the Mower County Transcript, 12 Dec. 1900, page 11, columns 3&4 under heading "WOODBURY."]
Death has again visited our community and removed from our midst Ida Irene, daughter of Leslie Barnum.
She was born in Lyle township May 23, 1866, and passed from this life to a brighter one Nov. 25, 1900, at Pueblo, Colorado, where she had gone hoping to recover her health. She was graduated from the Austin High School in the class of '83 at the age of 17 and was greatly loved and admired by her teachers and class-mates. She was united in marriage with A. B. Wilder of Otranto Dec. 10, 1885. To them were born two little girls and a little boy. Vera aged 12, Maurine aged eight, and little Irving aged four.
She was a tender loving mother, a kind and affectionate companion and a sympathetic friend. And could she speak she would say, "Dear father, husband and little ones mourn not for me, for I am happy and will be waiting to meet you in that bright land when your life's work is done." She was reared in the Spiritualist doctrine and was a firm believer in that faith. Death had no terrors for her-- it was simply a step of advancement.
Her remains were brought home to Otranto and on Dec. 2nd many friends gathered at that lonely home to pay their last tribute of respect and love. Many beautiful flowers were laid upon her casket, the gifts of loving friends. Many hearts were sad as they realized that they should never more mingle together in this life.
She made a great effort to get well for he dear one's sake. One the 14th of Nov. 1899, she left home hoping to find a more congenial climate. But the change did not seem to build her up as she believed it would. Still she never gave up and though, until the "death angel" came, that she was going to get well and return to her home. In her last letter, a few days before she passed away she wrote, "How glad I shall be when spring comes, I will come home and be with you all again." But it was not so to be. She has gone to be with the dear mother and sister who have preceded her to the better land, and we will follow one by one, where she will meet us, when our life's work is done, on the evergreen shore.
The funeral services were conducted by Mrs. Pruden, a Spiritualist speaker of Minneapolis, whose remarks were highly appreciated by the bereaved friends.
== Burial ==
Woodbury Cemetery
Lyle, Mower, Minnesota, United States
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