WW I Draft Registration Card
Name: William James Wilder
County: Williamsburg, SC
Home Address: Andrews, SC
Born: 10 Feb 1892, Gourdines, SC
Race: Caucasian (White)
Present Trade: Public Works
By whom employed: S A L RR Co 3, Andrews, SC
Married
Dependants: Wife and child
Medium Height
Blue eyes, light hair, slight bald
Precinct: Earles, Williamsburg Co., SC
June 5, 1917
G. W. Camlin, registrar
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Georgetown County marriage: Wilder, W. J., 23, of Williamsburg County, married Rowe, Ellie, 20, of Georgetown County on July 19, 1913.
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South Carolina Death Record
Name: William M Wilder
[William J. Wilder is correct. William M. sometimes seen in census.]
Occupation: Fireman
Born: 1893, South Carolina
Gender: Male
Race: White
Died: 6 Jan 1931, Elloree
Cause of Death: Hemorrhagic fever
Age at Death: 38
Marital Status: Married
Father: blank
Mother: blank
Burial: 7 Jan 1931, near Andrews
Undertaker: blank
Informant: E F Hungerpillar, illegible address
County of Death: Orangeburg, South Carolina
Certificate Number: 001114
Volume Number: 3
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Note 1: He died away from home while working for the railroad. That fact was confirmed in a conversation with a grandson in 2018. --RDL
Note2 : Death Certificate is sketchy and not completely accurate because he died away from home in a place where he was not well known.
Note 3. He had several children by his wife, Ellie Rowe, and two, Claudie Nix, and Roy Mixon, by Ellie's sister, Nina Rowe, to whom he was not married.
Note 4. Hemorrhagic fever was deadly in Ulmers, although one might expect relative safety in January. Mr. Wilder was not the first Andrews man to die there: Josiah Moses Player.∼WW I Draft Registration Card
Name: William James Wilder
County: Williamsburg, SC
Home Address, Andrews, SC
Born: 10 Feb 1892, Gourdines, SC
Race: Caucasian (White)
Present Trade: Public Works
Employer: S A L RR Co 3, Andrews, SC
Married
Dependents: Wife and child
Medium Height
Blue eyes, light hair, slight bald
Precinct: Earles, Williamsburg Co., SC
June 5, 1917
G. W. Camlin, registrar

Note: Gourdines may well mean Gourdines Chapel which is in Georgetown County but is barely across SC Highway 41 from Williamsburg County. It is eight miles south of Andrews.

Note: In 1917, William James Wilder and Ellie Rowe Wilder had only one child, a daughter. Later, three sons were born to them.
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South Carolina Death Record
William M Wilder
Name: William M Wilder
Occupation: Fireman
Born: 1893, South Carolina
Gender: Male
Race: White
Died: 6 Jan 1931, Elloree
Cause of Death: Hemorrhagic fever
Age at Death: 38
Marital Status: Married
Father: blank
Mother: blank
Burial: 7 Jan 1931, near Andrews
Undertaker: blank
Informant: E F Hungerpillar, illegible address
County of Death: Orangeburg, South Carolina
Certificate Number: 001114
Volume Number: 3

Is this the husband of Ellie Rowe? In 1930 Ellie was still married to William James Wilder. By 1940, she had been widowed. Sometime between 1935 and 1940, inclusive, she became a housekeeper for Stephen Asbury Owens, and later became his wife. Thus, William James Wilder died sometime between the censuses of 1930 and 1940.

William James Wilder had a daughter and four sons with his wife, Ellie Rowe: Lula Bell Wilder Owens, James Grady Wilder Sr., William Alvin Wilder Sr. and Vernis Vee Wilder. He had two sons with Ellie's sister Nina Rowe (later Drayton): Roy Mixon and Claudie Nix.