San Mateo Times, May 22, 1936, p. 7. "William T. Wedgwood, 76-year-old California pioneer and father of Mrs. J. B. Oswald and Thomas J. Wedgwood, both of Hillsborough, died yesterday at his home in Burbank, near San Jose. He was a direct descendant of Josiah Wedgwood, famous pottery and china maker of England. The Wedgwood stoves were named after him by one of his best friends, the late G. T. Graham, manufacturer. Born in New York, he came to San Francisco, accompanied by his mother, when only 8 years old. His father, believed killed in the Civil War, later joined them in the bay city. Wedgwood later opened a machine shop in San Francisco, moved to San Mateo after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and a year later moved to San Jose, where he has resided since. In addition to Mrs. Oswald, wife of a prominent Hillsborough building contractor, and Thomas J. Wedgwood, he is survived by another son, William Jr. of San Jose, and his widow, Mrs. Mary Wedgwood. He was also the father of the late Arthur Wedgwood. ... Interment will be in Santa Clara Catholic Cemetery."

The Story of William Wedgwood Sr. and his son William
The New York Herald (Sept. 28, 1888, page 9) reported an amazing story about the reunion in Keyport, New Jersey, of William Wedgwood and his son William, both of whom had believed for years that the other was dead.

According to the article, William Wedgwood, the father, had come to America some 30 years early from Burslem, England. He was a nephew of Josiah Wedgwood, the famed British potter who founded the Wedgwood company. In America, William married a Miss Alice Davis and had three children, two daughters and a son. When the Civil War broke out, he joined the Mozart Company, 40th New York, and came back ill with Chickahominy fever. As soon as he recovered he went to the front again, this time with the 2nd Metropolitan, 133d New York.

Around this time, Mrs. Wedgwood went to Oakland, California, with their little son William, leaving her daughters behind with an aunt in Keyport, Maine. (One daughter married Captain Stanhope, and the other William Worley, both of Keyport.) Mrs. Wedgwood, in Oakland, received news that her husband had been killed in the war. She died herself not long afterward. A report reached her daughters in Keyport that both she and their brother had died. William Wedgwood Sr. was not killed in the war and returned in perfect health, where he learned of the death of his wife and son. Over the course of time, he returned to Burslem, where he remarried and entered the pottery business.

Meanwhile, young Wedgwood grew up and opened a blacksmith's shop in Oakland. He knew from his mother's letters that his father had relatives in Burslem, and learning that an acquaintance was traveling to England, he asked him to hunt up his father's folks and learn what he could. In England, the acquaintance located William Wedgwood Sr., who was not dead at all. The old man's heart was rejoiced by the news that his son was alive, and soon returned to America so that they could be reunited.