Karen Cotter is graciously sharing her "Wolfe Family" genealogy information with those who might have an interest. If you should have any questions or additional information please contact Karen at the following E-mail address: cotterkaren@yahoo.com. Thank you.
1.0 Unknown Wolfe + Zibilla Wolfe
2.4 Jacob Wolfe + Veronica Domin Fluhbacker Tommen (1st wife)
.................. + Ann Appollonia Shuler (2nd wife)
3.9 Phillip Wolfe (Woolf) + Rachel Minnick
4.1 John Jay Wolfe (John Johannes) + Mary Ann Stephen OR Stevens
5.1 Phillip Samuel Wolfe + Judith T. Berryman (1st wife)
........................... + Elizabeth "Betty" Louisa Ferguson (2nd wife)
Son of Phillip Samuel Wolfe and Judith T. Berryman.
Born: 5 August 1842 per tombstone, in Mississippi per census. The CSA Disability Discharge of 16 July 1862 shows birth place as Kemper, MS per Edith Dorow. The 1860 census shows his age as 18 years which agrees with tombstone.
Died: 26 June 1909 per tombstone under W. P. Wolfe
Buried: Sand Hollow Cemetery, Frio County, TX per
(http://www.historicdistrict.com/genealogy/frio).
Married: REBECCA CATHERINE. PIGFORD in 1869, Madison County, TX. Oldest daughter of Jacob Pigford and Mary McMillan
Born: 9 October 1848 per tombstone, in Mississippi per per 1880 census; in Lauderdale County, MS The 1880 census shows her age as 31 years.
Died: 4 November 1935 per tombstone Buried: Sand Hollow Cemetery, Frio County, TX
The information provided by Edith Dorow was from Bill Dorow, the great grandson of this couple. E-mail address: SCTexans@aol.com
Pat served in the Civil War. He and his brother, Columbus C. Wolfe, enlisted as Privates in Company L, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at Latonia, AR on 1 July 1861. Pat was wounded at Capon Bridge, VA on 4 January 1862, discharged for a fractured scapula on 16 July 1862. Columbus didn't like the Infantry and started a cavalry unit and rejoined the fray. William Patton may have jointed his brother. Beth Thurman says that family legend os that he and his brothers Christopher Columbus "Lum" Wolfe and Wayman A. "Wayne" Wolfe and he were all captured at the same time and were confined at U. S. Military Prison, Alton, IL. They were planning to escape but their brother Wayne told them that he could not make the escape because he was too ill. The last they ever heard from him was when he supposedly said "You boys go on. I'm too sick. I'll catch up with you later when all of this is over." Beth Thurman heard the story of how the Yankees killed their brother until her uncle, James Dock Wolfe, found the record of his death of smallpox about a year after their escape. After the war, the escapees were reluctant to try and find out what happened to their brother because they may have joined a "raiding party" after their escape while making their way home and appropriated some horses and supplies from the Yanks. Supposedly William Patton "Pat" Wolfe came home riding a white stallion of a very expensive bloodline and the others also had good blooded horses. "Pat" sold the white horse. After he left Arkansas and went to Texas, the horse's winter coat was shed and the horse was a totally different color. It was thought he was getting rid of stolen or other misappropriated goods obtained while travelling home after his escape from Alton Prison.
Edith J. Dorrow provided the information about the Pigford family. After her husband's death, Rebecca's mother, Mary McMillan Pigford moved from Madison County, TX to Atascosa County, TX about 1875 and purchased 118 acres of land. She brought the three younger daughters and one son with her: Elizabeth Pigford, born 1855, Mary Pigford born 1859; Martha Pigford, born 1861; and Jacob Pigford, born 1863. She sold this land and since two of her daughters had married so she moved to Sand Hollow, Frio County, TX with Martha and Jacob. About 1877, her son-in law and oldest daughter Rebecca, with two sons and a daughter, also moved to Sand Hollow. She was granted 160 acres acres in Sand Hollow. She gave an acre of land in 1882 to build a school. There is a Mary Pigford on the 1880 census living next door to the Wolfes on the County website. Mary lived in the county until the early 1920's when she returned to Madisonville, Madison County, TX to live near a sister. She lived until age 98 and is buried in The Madisonville City Cemetery. Her daughter Martha and son Jacob remained in Frio County, TX the rest of their lives per "Frio County, Texas, a History", published 1979 and "A History of Madison County, Texas, Volume 2", published 1997. William Patton's sister, Arkansas "Arkie" Wolfe may have married twice, the first time to an Unknown Carpenter, because the website shows the marriage of Alfred Valentine Gates to A. Carpenter on 18 November 1879, Friotown, Frio County, TX. The Texas genealogy website shows both W. P. Wolfe and Jacob Pigford as original landowners in Frio County, TX. This Jacob Pigford is the son of Jacob Pigford and Mary McMillon. There is a Jacob Pigford, born 5 June 1863, died 27 June 1905 buried in Sand Hollow Cemetery.
W. P. Wolfe is on the listing of original landowners; Section 1144, Abstract 851 on file at county courthouse and the Texas General Land Office in Austin, TX. Je also sold Section 12 to a W.D. Wolfe, Abstract 1416.
Mrs. R. C. Wolfe claimed Confederate Pension #41524 in Frio County, TX, for her husband William Patton Wolfe.
There were other Wolfe's in the area (James Allen, born 1824) who Edith J. Dorow thinks were aunts/uncles/cousin. Beth Thurman thinks this is James Wolf, the son of John J. Wolf and Mary Ann Stephens but it's nothing but a hunch. The 1850 Perry County, AL census does show a James Allen Wolfe, but he is shown as being born 25 August 1831, not 1824. Still it's still possible since he is known to have migrated to Texas.
1880 Frio County, TX census from county website Page 12, Enumeraton Dist. 60 - 11 June 1880 Dwelling 88, Family No. 101, W. P. Wolfe, white, male, age 37, Farmer, shows three birth places MS, SC, KY
R. C. Wolfe, white, female, age 31, wife, House Keeping, MS, NC, VA
R. L. Wolfe, white, male, age 10, son, going to school, TX, MS, MS
W. W. Wolfe, white, male, age 8, son, TX, MS, MS
M. J. Wolfe, white, female, age 5, dau, TX, MS, MS
They were on the 1887 Frio County Tax Roll as having 240 acres.
"Frio County Has a Colorful History" by Mrs. W. A. Roberts, available from Frontier Times, June 1936. Ruben E. Ochoa"
Sand Hollow, Texas, a farming and stock-raising community, was near Sand Hollow Creek seven miles northeast of Pearsall in east central Frio County. The Sand Hollow school was constructed sometime around 1900, and in 1906 it had twenty-six students and one teacher. The schoolhouse also served as the community center and as a site for religious gatherings. In 1929 the school and a community cemetery were still in the area, and in 1948 the Sand Hollow community had the cemetery site surrounded by a dozen or so farms. The cemetery was shown on a 1989 map, but by that time the community appears to have been abandoned. The Sand Hollow Road to the cemetery runs east off Farm Road 2779.
He was born in Mississippi but his family moved to Arkansas and he appears in the following census:
The 1850 census, Marion Township, Drew County, AR shows: This is before his family moved to Bearship Township, east of the Prairie Grove Community and before one gets to what was the Midway Community. Information was provided by Beth Thurman, Monticello, AR.
Wolf, Phillip S., Age 39, Male, Born: SC, Farmer (middle initial known to be
Samuel)(Father of William Patton Wolfe)
Wolf, Judith T (wife), Age 37, Female, Born: AL (nee "Berryman") (mother of
William Patton Wolfe)
Wolf, Columbus C., Age 15, Male, Born: AL, Farmer (middle initial is
Christian, named after Christian Minnick, his
G-G-Grandfather, and the family called him "Lum")
Wolf, Wayman A. Age 13, Male, Born: MS, Farm laborer (called Wayne by the
family),
Wolf, James C., Age 12, Male, Born: MS (thought to be Calvin. However, later
letters and census records show James
Allen)
Wolf, Benjamin F., Age 9, Male, Born, MS (middle initial thought to be
Franklin because it was a family name in later
generations)
Wolf, Wm. P. Age 18, Male, Born: MS (known to be Patton, nickname Pat,
because this is what the family called him.
Wolf, Jane C., Age 2, Female, Born: AR (Some say the C stood for Caroline,
but some in the Berryman family said it was
really Jane H. for Hepsibah.
Wolf, Sara A, Age 2, Female, Born: AR
Wolf, Arkansas A., Age 2/12, Female, Born: AR
7.1 ROBERT LUTHER "BUDDY" WOLFE
R. L. WOLFE per 1880 census Son of William Patton "Pat" Wolfe and Rebecca
Pigford
Born: 16 June 1870 (per tombstone) in Texas per 1880 census; Madison County,
TX per Edith Dorow
1880 census shows him as 10 years old, lists him as R.L. Wolfe.
Tombstone only shows Luther Wolfe
Died: 2 July 1927 per tombstone
Buried: Sand Hollow Cemetery, Frio, TX
7.2 WILLIAM WALTER WOLFE
7.3 MARY JACOB "JAPIE" WOLFE
There are other Wolfe's buried in Sand Hollow Cemetery, Frio, TX, who are
probably children and grandchildren of
William Patton Wolfe and Rachel C. Pigford, but relationships not known.
There is a Florence Wolfe Henderson, born
1897, died 1980 buried next to Marshall Miller Henderson, born 1891, died
1967; Billy Ray Wolfe, born 9 May 1954,
died 30 June 1990; Cynthia Wolfe, no dates, Wooden cross, dau of Ray Wolfe;
Ruth Wolfe, no dates, Wooden cross,
dau of Ray Wolfe; Johnny Wolfe, no date, Wooden cross, son of Ray Wolfe;
Phillip Wolfe; born 28 April 1936, died 19
May 1986; Mrs. R. C. Wolfe, born 9 October 1848, died 19 August 1935; Ray
Wolfe, born 19 April 1903, died 19 August
1982, Husband of Vicenta, We love you Papa and on back of headstone,
Children: Penny, Rose, Cynthia, Billy Becky,
Shelly, Pat, Mary, Ruty, Ray Jrl, Phillip, Anita and Johnny; Ruth Wolfe, no
dates, wooden cross, dau of Ray Wolfe;
Vicinta M. Wolfe, born 22 January 1920, died 2 July 1994; W. P. Wolfe, born
5 August 1849, died 26 June 1909
Son of William Patton "Pat" Wolfe and Rebecca Pigford
Born: 1872 in Texas (tombstone confirms); Madison County, TX per Edith Dorow
On 1880 census as 8 years old
Born: 1877 per tombstone
Died: 1953 per tombstone
Buried: Sand Hollow Cemetery, Frio, TX next to William Walter Wolfe; her
Tombstone reads Ella May Wolfe
Daughter of William Patton "Pat" Wolfe and Rebecca Pigford
Born: 10 November 1874, Madison County, TX per tombstone
1880 census shows her as 5 years old
Died: 8 May 1949 per Edith J. Dorow from tombstone
Buried: Persall Cemetery in the Adams Family plot, Pearsall, TX per Edith J.
Dorow
Married: WILLIAM ALEXANDER "WILL" ADAMS, JR. on 7 September 1894 per
Marriage Book 2, pg 188, Frio County, TX, filed at the courthouse on 6
October 1894 per Edith J. Dorow; W. A. Adams on 6 Oct 1894 per Frio County
WebSite transcription of Marriage Register
Born: 7 June 1868, Goliad County, TX per Edith Dorow
Died: 10 September 1934 per Edith Dorow from Frio County, TX death
certificate of 2 October 1934
Buried: Pearsal Cemetery in Adams Family Plot, Frio County, TX per Edith
Dorow.