The second last child in Nathan's second family with his wife Mary Ann was Mary Ann Delena, known as Lena: Birth Reference #036-354 in 1886 of the Ontario Birth Archive records the birth of a daughter. She was named after her mother. Name: Mary Ann Delina When: 14 July 1886 Where: Waterloo Sex: Female Father: Nathan Uttley, Night Watchman, Waterloo Mother: Mary Ann Sanborn When Reg: 29 July 1886 Doctor: Dr. Webb "Delina", age 4, is included in the family of Nathan and Mary in the 1891 Census (Waterloo), and as "Mary M." at age 14 in the 1901 Census (Waterloo). Her father's obituary in October 1903 tells us that "Mary" was living at home with her parents and two older siblings, Jonathan and Carrie (Caroline).

Lena Uttley as a young girl

Marriage Lena married Archie Wildfong in Niagara Falls in 1907. From the Ontario Marriage Archive of 1907, reference #021-044: Groom: Archibald Wilfong Age: 22 Residence: Berlin, Ont Born: Doone, Ont bachelor Occ: Laborer Parents: Michael Wilfong, Mary Krong Religion: Presbyterian Bride: Lena Uttley Age: 21 Residence: Waterloo, Ont Born: Waterloo, Ont spinster Occ: ---- Parents: Nathan Uttley, Mary Ann Semburn Religion: Episcopal Witnesses: Lizette Magwood, Niagara Falls, Ont Maud Henderson, Niagara Falls, Ont By: Rev. J.N. Magwood When: July 3, 1907, Niagara Falls

From information in the City Directory of 1912, the couple is living on Duke Street in Waterloo at the home of Lena's mother and Archie is employed as a labourer. By 1919 the Wilfong's own a house at 40 Bridgeport Road, Archie is employed at Doering Trunk Company and Lena's older brother Jonathan lives with them as a border. Archie then works in the rubber industry in town -- the Dominion Tire Company in 1923 and Canadian Goodrich in 1925 as a tire pressman.

Lena Uttley Wildfong -- 1886-1941

Archie and Lena had four children: Carl Howard (b. Oct 22, 1910), Frederick Archibald (b. 1912), Lloyd Nathan (b. 1915) and one daughter Hazel Marion (b. Feb 11, 1919). In 1927 Archie has left Waterloo for Michigan leaving Lena in the house on Bridgeport Road and Jonathan as a border. The next year Lena leaves as well to join Archie in Flint, Michigan. On June 13, 1940 DeLena Wilfong became a citizen of the United States.

This is a picture with most of members of the families of Archie Wildfong and Abe Uttley. It was taken on the front lawn of Abe's home on Dan Street, Kitchener in about 1927 when the Wildfongs left Waterloo for Flint, Michigan.

Well, well, if it "ain't" the Wilfongs + Uttleys Front: Mabel U, Lecetta (Liz) U, Lena W, Abe U (seated), Back: Carl W, Fred W, Earl U, Hazel W, Douglas U, Archie W, Roy U

Obituary

From the K-W Record, Kitchener, ON, on Friday August 29, 1941, page 19:

MRS. ARCHIBALD WILDFONG     Mrs. Archibald Wildfong, 54, died at her residence in Flint, Mich., yesterday following an illness of eight weeks. Mrs. Wildfong was formerly Miss Marian DeLena Uttley of Waterloo. In 1907 she was married to Archibald Wildfong in Waterloo and moved to Flint in 1927. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church.     Surviving are her husband, three sons, Carl of Detroit, Frederick and Lloyd of Flint, one daughter, Mrs. Gerald Taft of Flint, three brothers, Abraham, Peter and John Uttley of Kitchener, three sisters, Mrs. Caroline Kalbfleisch of Toronto, Mrs. Isobella Hohner of Stratford and Mrs. Albert Wolfe of Flint. Two grandchildren also survive.     Funeral service will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. from the Reigle Funeral Home, Flint. Burial will be made in Sunset Hills cemetery, Flint.

• Of the three sisters named, only Lena's older sister Caroline was a full sister. Bella was a half-sister that was brought into the family when Nathan remarried. Henrietta Warele (Mrs. Albert Wolfe) was Lena's niece who had been adopted by Nathan after her mother Mary Jane died in 1901.
• No half-siblings from Nathan's first family are mentioned.

Archibald Wildfong was born on February 10, 1885 in Doon Ontario. He was a son of Michael Wildfong and Mary Krong. His older brother Menno also married an Uttley girl -- Annie Uttley, the youngest daughter of Jonathan and Matilda Uttley.

From his brother Menno's obituary in 1950 we know there were at least four children in the family -- Menno of Elmira, Dilmos of Waterloo, Archie in Flint and a sister Mrs. Otto Schedler of Kitchener.

Archie Wildfong -- 1885-1970

Death The funeral and burial took place in Flint at the same funeral home and cemetery where his wife had died almost thirty years earlier. Florida-Flint WILDFONG, Archibald -- 529 S. Clyde, Kissimmee, Florida, formerly of 934 Eggleston in Flint, age 85, died Friday, September 25, 1970, at Kissimmee Medical Cemter. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Reigle Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, 4305 Clio Rd., Rev. Lewis Sutton officiating. Burial in Sunset Hills Cemetery. Mr. Wildfong will lie in state at the chapel where memorial services will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday under the auspices of Swartz Creek Lodge No. 458 F&AM.

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