John (or Joseph) Phillip Wolf |
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He married Martha Frances "Fanny" Foss on January 2, 1873. Fanny was born in 1852 in Boston, MA and she died October 7, 1918 in (likely) Ohio. She was the daughter of Joseph Boody Foss and Lydia Walker▼
They had four known children:
Grandfather Harry Joseph Wolf was born June 12, 1889 in Columbus OH which is where he also died on November 12, 1926. Margaret Barbara Haag was born about a year earlier on August 28 1888 in Portsmouth, Scioto County, OH. She died in Columbus on September 15, 1943. Margaret was the daughter of JOSEPH A. HAAG and CATHARINA C. "Katie" REIDER (Kathryn Ryder) who were both born in Ohio. HARRY JOSEPH WOLF, married MARGARET BARBARA HAAG married on June 15, 1909 in Franklin OH. Harry worked as a paperhanger and decorating contractor. Harry and Margaret had 3 children. Click here: Haag/Reider Ancestry
Tragedy struck this young family when Harry died of meningitis at the mere age of 37 (died November 12, 1926 in Columbus, Ohio). His death was many years prior to Margaret Barbara Haag Wolf's death who died in Columbus, Franklin, OH on 15 Sept. 1943.
Harry and Margaret had three children - 2 sons and 1 daughter: Their oldest child is daughter HELEN CHRISTINE WOLF who was born on May 10th in 1910. These were living in Columbus OH. We know that the family was living in Wisconsin by the time that Helen was age 4 (about1914). Helen would grow to marry a man named Charles A. Cary and then William C. Peck and have a daughter. William and Helen Peck divorced in Broward County, FL in 1953. Helen died on February 22, 1995 in Hanceville, Cullman, AL. She was 85 years old! In 1935 Helen and Charles Cary lived at the Hotel Gilbert in Ft. Lauderdale FL where they were cooks. By 1940 census, they were lodgers at Bud and Pauline Wheeler's house in Ft. Lauderdale; Helen was not working and Charles was a truck driver for an express company. They ultimately divorced.
In 1947, Helen at age 36 married 22 year old William Charles Peck in
Ft. Lauderdale. He had been married and divorced in Dade
County FL. She was now divorced from Charles Cary. William was
born in Spring Lake, NJ and lived in Ft. Lauderdale FL at the time
he married Helen. They had one daughter.
In 1950 Helen and William were living at 1905 SW 11 Court in Ft.
Lauderdale, FL. (Below is a recent picture of their home from
Google Maps)
Their first son and second child was JOSEPH PHILIP WOLF who was born February 10th in 1913 in WI. Joe would grow up to marry MARY ELIZABETH BALENGER on February 12, 1934. He was a painter of buildings. They had three daughters, all born in Columbus Ohio; one of whom was in the Miss Ohio pageant.
Their daughter named Nancy Earlene Wolf (Mrs. Beamenderfer)
was born March 10, 1939 and died March 6, 2003. She was
widowed when she died at her home at the age of 63. Joe only lived to the
age of 40. He died 5 April of 1953, in Columbus OH. He and Mary are buried at Union
Cemetery, Columbus OH:
Plot: Sect: 52; Lot: 137; Space: 4 Note: Mary Ballenger was the daughter of Earl M. Balenger and his wife Adda M. Maxwell. Mary was cremated; Joseph was not. Mary was born Nov. 17, 1914 in Zanesville OH and died Feb. 16, 1993 at the age of 78.
Mary married after Joseph's death - she married John Treib in Indiana:
Their last child and second son was DONALD LEWIS WOLF, born 1 day and 8 years after his sister Helen. Don was born on May 11, 1918 in Columbus, OH, the family having returned from Wisconsin to Ohio. He married JEAN AUDREY REPLOGLE on the very last day of the year in 1939. Jean was the daughter of RAYMOND REPLOGLE and MINNIE SCHMUHL. They ultimately moved to Florida for much of their married life. Don died in Fort Lauderdale at the age of 66.
Don married Lyn Catherine Mcfarland on the 24th of November 1980 in Broward County. They were married for several years before Don died on February 5th in 1985 of a heart attack at the age of 66. This heart attack followed years after his heart bypass operation. By this time they had a second home (mobile) in Lake Aston area of Florida as well as their home in Broward County, FL. This marriage was problematic for the Wolf family as when Don died, she kept the vast majority of Don's possessions for her side of the family and within months of his death she discontinued all communication and interaction with the Wolf side of the family. Very sad.
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