Mary Joanna Wild
Mary Joanna Wild (maiden name: Rhodes) was born around 1799 in Rhode Island to William and Mary Rhodes. She married Charles Wild on December 29, 1819, and they had at least nine children: Charles, born on June 10, 1822; Susanna, born on December 17, 1823; Edward, born on November 25, 1825; Laura, born on January 23, 1828; Mary, born on May 6, 1829; Catherine, born on November 12, 1832; Emily, born on September 18, 1835; Walter, born on June 19, 1836; and Lydia, born on August 6, 1849. They lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, and her husband worked as a physician and mill agent. One scholar writes that she and her husband had a "difficult relationship." In her diary, she complained about her husband's behavior toward her and hinted at "jealousy and perhaps extramarital affairs involving Charles and other women." 
 
By 1850, they owned $20,000 of real estate. They moved to North Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1850s, and by 1860, they owned $78,000 of real estate. Her husband died on May 3, 1864. By 1870, she was living in her daughter Mary’s household in North Providence. She died in the early 1880s.
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(4819)Wild, Mary Joanna ~ Rhodes, Mary Joanna1799
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 25

  • (13387) [recipient] ~ L. E. E. Greene to Mary J. Wild, 28 April 1828
  • (13363) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 22 December 1861
  • (13395) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild et al., 12 May 1862
  • (13396) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild and Sister, 19 July 1862
  • (13355) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild et al., 15 July 1863
  • (13356) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 17 October 1863
  • (13354) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 27 December 1863
  • (13357) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 29 April 1864
  • (13358) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 21 January 1865
  • (13359) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 17 May 1865
  • (13360) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 15 April 1866
  • (13362) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild and Helen M. (Conklin) Wild to Mary J. Wild, 21 May 1866
  • (13370) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, undated
  • (13364) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 16 February 186X
  • (13366) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 9 March 186X
  • (13367) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 2 June 186X
  • (13368) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 9 June 186X
  • (13375) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 20 July 186X
  • (13369) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 28 September 186X
  • (13394) [recipient] ~ Walter H. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 1 October 186X
  • (13372) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 13 October 186X
  • (13385) [recipient] ~ Susanna S. Wood to Mary J. Wild, 2 November 186X
  • (13380) [recipient] ~ Frances E. Wild and Edward A. Wild to Mary J. Wild and Mary H. Cushing, 10 February 1878
  • (13378) [recipient] ~ Edward A. Wild to Mary J. Wild, 8 May 1878
  • (13381) [associated with] ~ Edward A. Wild to Mary H. Cushing, 18 January 1882

People - Records: 10

  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent of] (4815) Wild, Edward Augustus
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent of] (4816) Wild, Walter Henry
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent of] (4817) Phipps, Laura Matilda
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent of] (4818) Wood, Susanna Seraphina
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent-in-law of] (4821) Conklin, Helen Maria
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent-in-law of] (4828) Wood, George Augustus
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent-in-law of] (4830) Wild, Frances Ellen
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [parent-in-law of] (4833) Cushing, Edward Jarvis
  • (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna is the [grandparent of] (5529) Wild, Elsie
  • (4831) Cushing, Mary Heath is the [child of] (4819) Wild, Mary Joanna

Places - Records: 1

  • (238) [birth] ~ Rhode Island

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SOURCES

1850, 1860, and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; "Diary of Mary Johanna Wild," Brookline Historical Society, available from https://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/archives/WildDiary/AboutTheDiary.asp