First Generation

1. Hezikah H. WILDES Sr. died on 12 November 1876 in Viroqua, Viroqua Township, Vernon County, WI.¹ He was born in New York.¹

Hezikah H. WILDES Sr. and Mary S. SMITH were married on 21 January 1847 in Koshkonong Township, Jefferson County, WI.^1,2 Mary S. SMITH was born in 1830 in Massachusetts.^1,3 She lived in Greenwood, Bad Ax County, WI in 1860.³ (Bad Ax County was renamed Vernon County, 1862.) She died on 22 September 1887 at the age of 57 in Hillsboro, Vernon County, WI.¹

Hezikah H. WILDES Sr. and Mary S. SMITH had the following children:

+2	i.	Mary Adaline WILDES.
+3	ii.	Emeline WILDES.
4	iii.	Hezikah WILDES Jr. was born on 14 December 1851 in Berrien County, MI.^1,4 He died on 8 February 1897 at the age of 45 in Wonewoc, Juneau County, WI.^1,4 at the Vernon County Poor House.
+5	iv.	Martin C. WILDES.
+6	v.	Alice Jane WILDES.
+7	vi.	Ebenezer "Edward" WILDES.
+8	vii.	Albert WILDES.
+9	viii.	Warren W. WILDES.
+10	ix.	Myron C. "Miner" WILDES.
+11	x.	Oscar Eugene WILDES.