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JESSE H. WOLF - Generation 5

Jesse H. Wolf5, Jacob4, Michael3, Jacob2,  Michael1,  b. 25 Jan 1826 in Norfork, Izard Co., AR, d. 1 Aug 1897 in and around Norfork, AR, m. 31 Aug 1848, Nancy Jane Hargrave , b. 21 Jul 1831, d. 9 Aug 1877.  Nancy Jane was the d/o John  and Nancy (Talburt,Talbut) Hargrave(s).  She was the granddaughter of Frederick Talburt, Sr. and wife Elizabeth Wilhoit Talburt.   Nancy (Talburt) Hargrave was b. 3 Jul 1777 and she and John married in 1817.  Jesse H. Wolf married Catherine Jane Kellough Luther after the death of his first wife.

Jesse H. Wolf was born as the seventh child of the Major and the second child by his second wife Elizabeth (Lantz) Sanders. Jesse's mother was born in Ohio and his parents were married in Batesville, AR, 8 Jan 1824. From all indications he was close to his older brother Martin Jefferson (RN31) as the names of their children bear remarkable sameness and their wives were sisters. Martin Jefferson married Catherine Hargrave.

From Warren Wolf's notes, it is learned that Joseph Crunkleton one of the pioneer mill men of North Arkansas built for Jesse Wolf the first sawmill in that section of the state. It was run by water power instead of circle-saw that is of later date. Jesse used a saw that worked perpendicularly and the builder of the sawmill stated that it was one of the best paying sawmills that he ever built. It is thought that Jesse Wolf also inherited his father's ability with the blacksmith trade. Jessie Belle Green, (RN918) a g/daughter of Jesse H. Wolf, has an anvil that he made.

Jesse Wolf is thought to have taken possession (lived in) of the Wolf house after the death of his father in 1863. No document has been traced to his ownership of the house but a marriage certificate of Jesse's daughter, Mary Arkansas Wolf (RN295), who married Ezekiel Newton Osborne states that they were married on 4 Aug 1878 at the residence of Jesse H. Wolf. A daughter of Mary Arkansas Wolf Osborne, Elizabeth Osborne Vickrey, always said that her parents were married in what is commonly known to family members as the Wolf House on that date.

Jesse H. Wolf served in the Confederate States Army with the 14 Arkansas Infantry as a Private in Company I. There is a paper listing the Jesse H. Wolf estate in 1900 and witnessed by Frederick Talburt showing the heirs at that time as Jane Wolf, Kansas Morton, J.P. Wolf, R.H. Wolf, Belle Wolf Hargrave, Frances Reeves. From those names listed, knowing that Jesse's first wife Nancy Jane Hargrave Wolf was deceased, it could be assumed that he had already remarried and the Jane Wolf referred to was the second wife, as he did marry Jane Kellough Luther, who was the widow of Calvin Luther. It is known that Annie Morton and Mary Arkansas (Kansas or Kance) Osborne were both living at that time; so it cannot be determined which of the two is not accounted for as they have the given name of one and the married name of the other listed together as one person when in fact there were really two. It could, or could not, be assumed that all the other children not listed in the document of estate were already deceased as several children were NOT mentioned. In another version of contents, it lists both Kansas and Annie but leavs out Emma Maud.  The original document has not been located.  The saved records from the Court House fire have been examined and the posting has not been located to this date, June 2005.  In the Jesse H. Wolf Family Bible in the possession of Ruby Wolf Lack's grandson ( I do NOT know which grandson - Ruby just told me herself in 1978 that her grandson had the bible -  no death dates were given for several of Jesse's children; yet, his death date is listed as 1898. These children, not listed, could have all been alive, in 1898 , but became deceased between that date and 1900; or it could be that such death dates were just omitted.  Also, an obituary has finally been located in the Mountain Echo newspaper dated August 1897 and found in the Arkansas Historical Commission microfilm file.   So the death entry was written by someone else at a later time and the year of 1898 was wrong. 

Jesse H. Wolf departed this life with not much known about him. His daughter Annie Lee Wolf Morton gave birth to a daughter 24 Jan 1896. Jesse went to see his new grandchild and asked permission to name her. Permission was granted and he named her Nancy, presumedly after her grandmother and his first wife Nancy Jane Hargrave Wolf. This incident was related to me by Jane Morton Head, an older sister to that baby. The child, Nancy Modera Morton Flippin, was alive in Flippin, AR in 1978 but died in a Mountain Home, AR rest home in the early 1980's. Subsequently Jane Morton Head and her husband also both passed away in the late 1980's. Jane Head lived within a few miles of her birth place near Norfork all of her life but she personally told me that she knew nothing about her grandfather, Jesse H. Wolf. In Warren Wolf's notes, he refers to Jesse's daughter Annie Lee as being at the home of her Uncle Martin Jefferson Wolf when her mother Nancy Jane Hargrave Wolf died so when the Jesse Wolf family broke up so to speak she lived with her Uncle for several years.

Elizabeth Osborne, a g/daughter of Jesse Wolf was baptized into the Methodist Church at the Wolf House when she was a young girl living in Baxter County and presumedly while her Grandfather, Jesse H. Wolf, was living in or maintaining the Wolf House.

Exactly where Jesse H. Wolf lived out his days is simply unknown. Mary Elizabeth Blount, another g/daughter of Jesse H. Wolf remembers being told that perhaps he died at the home of Mary Arkansas Wolf Osborne who was then also living in Baxter County. No burial site has been established for either Jesse H. Wolf or his first wife Nancy Jane Hargrave Wolf. There are area cemeteries where many of the Hargraves and Talburts (Talbuts) were buried but no positive site has been discovered in those or the known Wolf cemeteries for the two. Jesse's second wife would have still been alive when he died and since it is thought by some family members that she is buried on the John Pierce Wolf home place cemetery near McPhearson; he also could be buried there, perhaps. John Pierce Wolf was one of Jesse H. Wolf's sons and he, John Pierce, had married Fannie Luther who was the daughter of Jane Kellough Luther, Jesse's second wife. These facts give more than reasonable doubt to the theory that the both of them would be buried in that family plot.  Catherine Jane Kellough had a son Isaac Riley Kellough who went by the name of Isaac Riley Luther after Catherine Jane married Calvin Luther when his first wife died.  There has always been speculation that Isaac Riley Kellough Luther carried Wolf blood through Jesse H. Wolf.  No DNA test has been done to this point but in the Wolf family it was well known that Isaac was Jesse's son by Catherine Jane, so his line of descent is carried by this family data base.
Children:

         i.  Robert Hargrave Wolf
        ii.  John Pierce Wolf
       iii.  Elizabeth Francis Wolf Reeves
        iv.  Mary Arkansas Wolf Osborne
         v.  Nancy Belle Wolf Hargrave
        vi.  Jacob D. Wolf
      vii.  Annie Lee Wolf Morton
     viii.  George E. Wolf
       ix.  Emma Maude Wolf Mowery
        x.  Jesse Lantz Wolf
       xi.  Joseph R. Wolf


Generation VI (as descended from Jesse, Jacob, Michael, Jacob, Michael Wolf 1)
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Robert Hargrave WOLF 
 • BIRTH:   24 Apr 1851
 • DEATH:  1924
 • BURIAL:  Mountain Home, AR Cemetery 
Father:   Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:  Nancy Jane HARGRAVE 
Family  1: MARRIAGE:  Effie May 
     1.   Jim WOLF
     2.   Emma Lee WOLF
Family  2:  MARRIAGE:  Cynthia Jefferies
     3.   Russell Littlefield WOLF
     4.   Jessie  WOLF
Family  3:  MARRIAGE:     Mrs. Hammock


John Pierce WOLF 
 • BIRTH:   25 May 1853
 • DEATH:  28 Aug 1927
 • BURIAL:  Cemetery located on John Pierce Wolf home  place.  As of 1990, it was  in very bad repair with  stones turned over and broken.   
Father:    Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:   Nancy Jane HARGRAVE 
Family  1:   
MARRIAGE:  24 Jul 1883, Fannie Forrest LUTHER in the home of the bride bur J.E. Wolf, J.P.  She was daughter of Calvin and Jane (KELLOUGH) LUTHER.  She was b 20 Feb 1865 and d. 27 Mar 1944. 
     1.   Nancy Myrtle WOLF
     2.   Leta Fay WOLF
     3.   Arthur Carlisle WOLF
     4.   Luther Watterson WOLF
     5.   Sallie Herd WOLF
     6.   Isaac Feusmore WOLF
     7.    Robert Pierce WOLF
     8.   Estella Forrest WOLF
     9.   Emma Osborne WOLF
   10.   Ruby Lucile WOLF
   11.   John Howard WOLF



Elizabeth Frances WOLF 
 • BIRTH:   27 Aug 1855, near Norfork, AR
 • DEATH:  17 Jan 1923 in Hot Springs, AR area.
 • BURIAL:  perhaps around Hot Springs, AR 
Father:    Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:   Nancy Jane HARGRAVE 
Family  1:   Andrew Jackson Reeves b. 1846 in MO with father b. TN and mother b. MO  • MARRIAGE:  17 Feb 1876 
     1.   John Wesley Reeves (adopted).  He was listed in their household as John W. Norvell on one census and next census he was listed as      John Reeves and it stated that he was adopted.  If so, he was adopted when he was about 20 and shortly before his parents died.  A.J. Reeves died in 1919 in Hot Springs, Garland Co., AR, and Elizabeth Frances Wolf Reeves in  1923 also in Hot Springs.

Mary Arkansas WOLF 
 • BIRTH:  17 Mar 1858, near Norfork, AR
 • DEATH:  08 Jul 1931, Clarita, Coal Co.,  OK
 • BURIAL: Wilson Cemetery near Clarita, Coal Co., OK 
Father:  Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:  Nancy Jane HARGRAVE 
Family  1:   Ezekiel Newton OSBORNE, Surveyor for Baxter Co., AR 
      MARRIAGE:  31 Aug 1878 at Wolf House in Norfork, AR
     1.   Jessie Ann OSBORNE
     2.   Marshall Ney OSBORNE
     3.   Jacob Richardson OSBORNE
     4.   Elizabeth Maude OSBORNE
     5.   Oder Ezekiel OSBORNE
     6.   Milam Wolf OSBORNE
     7.   Mary Bryan OSBORNE
     8.   Edmond Nelson OSBORNE

Nancy Belle WOLF 
 • BIRTH:   20 Aug 1859, near Norfork, AR
 • DEATH:  19 Dec 1935
 • BURIAL:   
Father:  Jesse H. WOLF
Mother: Nancy Jane HARGRAVE 
Family  1:  John Hensley HARGRAVE 
 • MARRIAGE:  2 Jan 1882 
     1.   Fannie Cannie Arkansas HARGRAVE
     2.   Frankie Lou HARGRAVE
     3.   Elbridge Lee HARGRAVE
     4.   Jessie Belle HARGRAVE

Jacob D. WOLF
 • BIRTH:     03 Jan 1862
 • DEATH:   24 Jun1862
 • BURIAL:  Unknown, could be Herron/Wolf cemetery 
Father:   Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:  Nancy Jane HARGRAVE

 Annie Lee WOLF 
 • BIRTH:    12 Mar 1863, near Norfork, AR
 • DEATH:   16 Oct 1904 , Baxter Co.,
 • BURIAL:  Oak Grove Cemetery, Baxter Co., AR 
Father:   Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:   Nancy Jane WOLF
Family  1:   Samuel Adophert MORTON
 
 • MARRIAGE:  09 Aug 1883 
     1.   Mary Ann MORTON
     2.   Samuel Lee MORTON
     3.   Ruth Elizabeth MORTON
     4.   Nancy Modera MORTON
     5.   Jane Agnes MORTON
     6.   John Henry MORTON

George E. WOLF 
 • DEATH:  30 Sep 1867
 • BURIAL:  Unknown, Maybe Herron/Wolf Cemetery 
Father:    Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:   Nancy Jane HARGRAVE

 Emma Maude WOLF 
 • BIRTH:  28 Sep 1868
 • DEATH:  1954, Hot Springs, AR
 • BURIAL:  Hot Springs, AR 
Father:   Jesse H. Wolf
Mother:   Nancy Jane HARGRAVE 
Family  1:   Edgar MOWERY 
 • MARRIAGE:  Unknown 
     1.   Fred Curtis MOWERY



Jesse Lantz WOLF 
 • BIRTH:  11 Apr 1872
 • DEATH:  16 Apr 1872
 • BURIAL:  Unknown 
Father:  Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:   Nancy Jane HARGRAVE

Joseph R. WOLF 
 • BIRTH:   11 Apr 1874
 • DEATH:  Unknown
 • BURIAL:  Unknown 
Father:  Jesse H. WOLF
Mother:   Nancy Jane HARGRAVE

 

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