Tombstone Tuesday: Albert Allen & Elizabeth Wolfe

Albert Allen Wolfe and his wife Elizabeth would have been my great-great uncle and aunt on my mother's side. They are both buried in the Monongahela Cemetery in the city of the same name in Pennsylvania.

Albert Allen Wolfe was born on March 18, 1886, in Monongahela, Washington County, Pennsylvania, the 7th of 8 children (and third and last son) of Joseph William Wolfe and Margaret Melzina “Maggie” Carroll Wolfe. He appears in the 1900 census living in Monongahela with his parents, older brother Abraham, younger sister Irma, and older sister Margaret, along with the latter’s husband Edward Yohe and their son Lloyd L.

In the 1910 census, he is a bricklayer, still in Monongahela, Ward 3, living on Fourth Street with his wife Elizabeth and their newborn son Joseph. In the 1920 census, they are still in the same place; Joseph is now nine and younger brother Albert is six. The family is still in the same location on the 1930 census; Joseph is now also a bricklayer.

Albert’s 1942 World War II draft registration card shows he is still married to Elizabeth, his residence as 4th and Black Street, and that he is working for Hiram Swanks Sons in Large, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Albert outlived all but possibly one of his siblings, passing away in 1958.

Little is known so far of his wife Elizabeth. Based on census data, she and her parents were born in Pennsylvania. Her maiden name may have been Miller, and/or her middle initial M. According to her tombstone, she was born in 1886 and died in 1961.

The photo above is courtesy of Harry Adams at the Find A Grave website.

© Amanda Pape - 2010

Tombstone Tuesday: Irma Wolfe Quinn, 1888-1955

Irma Wolfe Quinn is the youngest child of my great-great-grandparents, Joseph William and Margaret Melzina "Maggie" Carroll Wolfe. She was born September 23, 1888, in Monongahela, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

I found her on the 1900 census in Monongahela with her parents and older brothers Albert (who outlived her) and Abraham, as well as her older sister Margaret Yohe, her husband Edward Yohe, and their two-year-old son Loyd.

After that, I have been unable to locate Irma. Her middle name has been listed in some family records as Linda, although her obituary says it is Livia and the tombstone just gives the middle initial M. Other records say she might have been married to a Rowland, but she was married to an Edward Quinn since at least 1949, when they moved to Martinsburg, Jefferson County, West Virginia so Edward could be treated at the Baker Veterans Administration Center Hospital there. They lived at 333 S. Queen Street when she died on November 29, 1955. She is buried near her father, mother, and sister Myrtle in the Monongahela Cemetery.

© Amanda Pape - 2010

Tombstone Tuesday: Jane Barr Carroll, 1822-1896

Jane Barr Carroll is my great-great-great-grandmother. She was born in 1822 in Pennsylvania. By the 1850 census she was married to Louis Huffman Carroll and living in West Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Daughter Margaret Melzina, my great-great-grandmother, was born in 1846.

On the 1860 and 1870 censuses, the family is living in Carroll, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Son Harvey Louis was born in 1858. In 1870, Margaret and her husband Joseph William Wolfe and their daughter Emma are living with them, as well as a 12-year-old girl named Olive Pancost--not sure how or if she is related.

In 1880, Jane and her husband and son lived in Monongahela in Washington County, Pennsylvania, with daughter Margaret Carroll Wolfe and her growing family next door.

Jane died on November 19, 1896, in Monongahela, and is buried next to her husband in the Monongahela Cemetery in the same plot as Joseph and Margaret Carroll Wolfe and their infant daughter Myrtle Jenny Wolfe.

© Amanda Pape - 2010

Tombstone Tuesday: Louis/Lewis Huffman Carroll, 1822-1885

Louis (or Lewis) Huffman Carroll was my great-great-great grandfather. He was born March 4, 1822, near Lebanon in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas and Dorcas Huffman Carroll. By the 1850 census he was married to Jane Barr and living in West Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Daughter Margaret Melzina, my great-great-grandmother, was born in 1846.

On the 1860 and 1870 censuses, the family is living in Carroll, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Son Harvey Louis was born in 1858. In 1870, Margaret and her husband Joseph William Wolfe and their daughter Emma are living with them, as well as a 12-year-old girl named Olive Pancost--not sure how or if she is related. In 1880, Huffman (the name he was using by that point), Jane, and Harvey lived in Monongahela in Washington County, Pennsylvania, with daughter Margaret Carroll Wolfe and her growing family next door.

Huffman is listed as a boatbuilder on the 1850 census, and as a carpenter on the next three censuses. He died on January 6, 1885, in Monongahela, and is buried next to his wife in the Monongahela Cemetery in the same plot as Joseph and Margaret Carroll Wolfe and their infant daughter Myrtle Jenny Wolfe.

© Amanda Pape - 2010

Tombstone Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday: Myrtle J. Wolfe, 1882

Myrtle Jenny Wolfe, born in January 1882, died in February 1882, is buried to the right of her father, Joseph William Wolfe (her mother, Margaret Melzina "Maggie" Carroll Wolfe, is buried to Joseph's left), in the Monongahela Cemetery, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Myrtle was the fifth of these great-great-grandparents' eight children.

As I have strained my iliopsoas and/or piriformis muscle (no idea how) and can't sit for long, this post will be for both Tombstone Tuesday and Wordless Wednesday, as I have no other information about Myrtle.

© Amanda Pape - 2010

Tombstone Tuesday: Margaret M. Carroll Wolfe, 1846-1911

Margaret Melzin(a) "Maggie" Carroll, wife of Joseph William Wolfe, is my great-great-grandmother on my mother's side. She was born in Pennsylvania on November 12, 1846, to Jane Barr and Lewis Huffman Carroll. In 1850, the family was living in West Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, so perhaps Maggie was born there.

In 1860 the family is living in Carroll (post office Monongahela) in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Maggie now has a little brother, Harvey Louis "Harry", born in 1858. On October 31, 1868, Maggie married Civil War veteran Joseph William Wolfe.

Over the next 20 years, Joseph and Maggie had eight children: Emma M. [Camp], James Shannon, Louis Henry (my great-grandfather), Margaret "Maggie" [Yohe], Myrtle Jenny (who died in infancy), Abram Cecil, Albert Allen, and Irma Linda. Joseph, Maggie, and Emma were living with Maggie's parents in 1870, but from 1880 on they lived in Monongahela in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Maggie died December 3, 1911, and is buried in Monongahela Cemetery.

© Amanda Pape - 2010

Tombstone Tuesday: Joseph William Wolfe, 1845-1918

Joseph William Wolfe is my maternal great-great-grandfather. He was born June 14, 1845, in Washington County, Pennsylvania (probably in East Pike Run Township, where the family lived in 1850), the third child and second son of William C. and Melinda Jane Smallwood Wolfe. William C. Wolfe died in 1855 and Melinda married William Peden, and in 1860 the blended family is living in Fallowfield, also in Washington County.

On September 2, 1861, Joseph enlisted as a private with Company D of the 79th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, which saw quite a bit of action in the Civil War. He rose to the rank of corporal and served through July 12, 1865. Apparently he eventually applied for a pension in December 1868 as 1883 pension rolls for Washington County show him receiving $4 a month.

Joseph married Margaret "Maggie" Melzen Carroll on October 31, 1868, and in 1870 they are living with her parents in Carroll, Washington County. Joseph and Maggie had eight children, one of whom passed away in infancy. From 1880 on, Joseph lived in Monongahela in Washington County.

The Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania [National Guard] for the year 1893 shows that Joseph was a member of the Tenth Regiment Infantry, enlisting as a private on December 17, 1888, promoted to corporal in June 1892, and to first lieutenant on May 26, 1893.

Joseph William Wolfe died on October 30, 1918, and is buried in Monongahela Cemetery, Monongahela, Pennsylvania. The star beside his grave appears to be a memorial flag holder for the G.A.R., the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War Union veterans' organization.

© Amanda Pape - 2010