Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameRichard Roberts WILBUR 
1596
1596Birth28 Jun 1915, Yuba City, Sutter, California1596
Death2 Dec 1961, Sandia Mountains, New Mexico5901,5902,1608, date only Age: 46
BurialSutter, Sutter, California5901
Occupationemployee (farmer) for Loyd H. Wilbur and farming for self1596
FatherLoyd Hamilton WILBUR (1880-1943)
MotherEthel Carlisle ECKART (1882-1964)
Individual Notes
• …survived by Richard Wilbur, of Sutter county.1606
• My second cousin Emily and I are close. She comes from the Richard line (the first Loyd married Ethel Eckart and had Richard, Roger, and Loyd Jr). I was nosing through newspapers from the first Richard’s life and found a report of a marriage and divorce no one appears to know about.
An article state the divorce was granted, and the couple, Edith and Richard Wilbur, married in April of 1934 and divorced 1940. There are legal notices of court changes indicating there was a minor child for whom he was paying support.
I looked up ALL USA records of marriages and divorces and there is not one that even looks plausible for April of 1934. But I also can find no record of any divorce. I don’t think I have ever been flat out unable to find ANYTHING.
The only marriage I can find a record of is his marriage to Dorothy Perkins in 41.5903
• [excerpts] Four bodies were found today in the wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed into the Sandia Mountains overlooking Albuquerque during the weekend.
Although the alert on the missing Yuba City plane listed only three persons aboard the craft, CAP officials said the log book contained the names of Lloyd D. (Sparky) Rogers, Fred Thomas, Jim Blevins, and Richard Wilbur.5902
• [excerpts} Although his career was not a long one, Richard Roberts Wilbur, through his thorough knowledge of fruit production and his spirit of enterprise, earned a place as one of America’s outstanding orchardists. In Sutter County, California, where his father had engaged in the same occupation before him, he established a level of peach production which ranked him as the largest individual grower of this fruit in the world. He also raised prunes, walnuts, and almonds on a large scale. He found time in a busy career for organizational affairs and varied avocational activities.
By the end of his life, Mr. Wilbur was farming about three thousand acres of peaches, prunes, walnuts and almonds, and was reputedly the largest individual peach grower in the world. His operations had steadily increased over the years, and have been continued effectively since his death by his widow, Dorothy Irene Wilbur.
Despite the demands of running his large operation, Mr. Wilbur impressed all who knew him as a friendly, calm, relaxed, soft-spoken and humble man. He was a Republican, and a communicant of the Episcopal Church.1608
• My second cousin Emily and I are close. She comes from the Richard line (the first Loyd married Ethel Eckart and had Richard, Roger, and Loyd Jr). I was nosing through newspapers from the first Richard’s life and found a report of a marriage and divorce no one appears to know about.
An article state the divorce was granted, and the couple, Edith and Richard Wilbur, married in April of 1934 and divorced 1940. There are legal notices of court changes indicating there was a minor child for whom he was paying support.
I looked up ALL USA records of marriages and divorces and there is not one that even looks plausible for April of 1934. But I also can find no record of any divorce. I don’t think I have ever been flat out unable to find ANYTHING.
The only marriage I can find a record of is his marriage to Dorothy Perkins in 41.5903
• [excerpts] Four bodies were found today in the wreckage of a twin-engine plane that crashed into the Sandia Mountains overlooking Albuquerque during the weekend.
Although the alert on the missing Yuba City plane listed only three persons aboard the craft, CAP officials said the log book contained the names of Lloyd D. (Sparky) Rogers, Fred Thomas, Jim Blevins, and Richard Wilbur.5902
• [excerpts} Although his career was not a long one, Richard Roberts Wilbur, through his thorough knowledge of fruit production and his spirit of enterprise, earned a place as one of America’s outstanding orchardists. In Sutter County, California, where his father had engaged in the same occupation before him, he established a level of peach production which ranked him as the largest individual grower of this fruit in the world. He also raised prunes, walnuts, and almonds on a large scale. He found time in a busy career for organizational affairs and varied avocational activities.
By the end of his life, Mr. Wilbur was farming about three thousand acres of peaches, prunes, walnuts and almonds, and was reputedly the largest individual peach grower in the world. His operations had steadily increased over the years, and have been continued effectively since his death by his widow, Dorothy Irene Wilbur.
Despite the demands of running his large operation, Mr. Wilbur impressed all who knew him as a friendly, calm, relaxed, soft-spoken and humble man. He was a Republican, and a communicant of the Episcopal Church.1608
Census Data
• 1920 Census: Yuba, Sutter, California. Age 5, b CA. Parents b CA.1598
• 1930 Census: Yuba, Sutter, California. Age 14, b CA. Parents b CA.1599
• 1950 Census: Yuba, Sutter, California. Age 34, b CA. Farmer; farm.5904
• 1930 Census: Yuba, Sutter, California. Age 14, b CA. Parents b CA.1599
• 1950 Census: Yuba, Sutter, California. Age 34, b CA. Farmer; farm.5904
Directories
• Wilbur, Richard R.––Yuba City, Gen. Del., Salesman, Rep.1601
Spouses
Individual Notes
• WILBUR – In the Yuba City hospital, April 23, to the wife of Richard R. Wilbur, Yuba City, a son.5905
Census Data
• 1940 Census: Gridley, Butte, California. Age 22, b CA. Daughter. Divorced. Lived in Yuba City in 1935.5907
Children(Private, Male)
Birth26 Aug 1919, Oregon5908, states place as Washington,5909
Death13 Dec 1994, Yuba City, Sutter, California5908 Age: 75
FatherLoren Russell PERKINS (1888-1962)
MotherAlice Irene PHILLIPS (1891-1975)
Census Data
• 1950 Census: Yuba, Sutter, California. Age 30, b OR.5904
Marriage27 Jan 1942, Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada5908, place only,1608, p 699
Children(Private, Female)
(Private, Male)