Hadassah Thompson was the grandmother of James Llewellyn Wilder. She was born in Norridgewock, Maine, in 1806, to Dr. Asaph Thompson and Mary "Polly" Wood Thompson. She married James Marvel Wilder in Norridgewock, Maine in 1828. She had possibly two children, Francis L.Wilder, and a girl, named Lomira Wilder, who appears on family census records at age eleven in 1840. Hadassah Thompson is best known because of two samplers that she created as a girl, one about 1818, and another in 1820. She died in October of 1832 at age twenty six. The cause of her death isn't known, but perhaps it was from childbirth, or possibly as a result of Asiatic Cholera, which swept through Norridgewock and the adjacent area that year. She is buried next to her husband James M. Wilder and his second wife Rebecca Wait Wilder, in Sunset Cemetery, North Anson, Maine.
Below is a link to the grave sites of Hadassah Thompson Wilder, James M. Wilder and Rebecca Wait Wilder.