Henry Clay Wolf (1844 - 1933)

Born 25 Sep 1844 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Jan 1933 at age 88 in Red Cloud, Webster, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

• Fact: Residence (1850) Metamora, Franklin, Indiana, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Webster, Nebraska, United States
• Fact: Residence (1885) , , Garfield, Webster, Nebraska
• Fact: Residence (1900) ED 166 Garfield Township, Webster, Nebraska, United States
• Fact: Residence (1930) Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head: Head Red Cloud, Webster, Nebraska, United States
• Fact: Burial (after 12 January 1933) Red Cloud, Webster, Nebraska, United States
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch

Military details: Camp Terry, Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States Service entry date of 20 August 1862. Private 79 Illinois Infantry under Captain Davis. Henry Clay was 5'5 1/2" tall, light hair, brown eyes, fair complexion and a farmer born in Franklin County, Indiana. Henry served in engagements at Stone River, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face, Resaca, and Kennesaw Mountain. November 30 1864, Franklin County, Tennessee, USA. Henry was paroled prisoner captured at Franklin, TN. He was wounded in action, captured at the Second Battle of Franklin and held as a POW in the notorious Andersonville Prison in GA. He may have become blinded as a result of wounds.

Henry Clay Wolfe drove a team of oxen to Red Cloud when he moved the family from Indiana to Red Cloud, Nebraska. Henry spent 18 months in the Andersonville prison during the Civil War and survived the ordeal. He was released in 1865. He left home at 18 years to join the Army (1861 - 1862). He served with the 79 regiment of Illinois Infantry with General William Tecumseh Sherman in his campaign against Atlanta Georgia before his march to the sea. He also served with Scofield, and Thomas in the defense of Nashville, Tennessee against General Hood and his Confederate army and at Franklin, Tennessee in one of the fiercest engagements of the war.

After the war, he married Miss Marie Throckmorton, of Arcola, Illinois, coming to Red Cloud, Nebraska in 1879 where he became prominently identified with the social church and political life of Webster County.

He is survived by five sons, two daughters, thirty grandchildren and forty-four great grandchildren. The surviving sons and daughters are John, Charles S. and George W. Wolfe of St. Francis, Ira Wolfe of Rexford, Kansas, Omar of Red Cloud, Mrs. Lizzie Wilson Red Cloud and mrs. Charles Milligan of McCook, Nebraska

Land transactions recorded for Henry C. Wolfe and wife on February 18, 1884 and for George Washington Wolfe on November 7, 1878 and October 28, 1878 warranty deed recorded in county court house Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska, USA

After a lingering illness of several months, Henry Clay Wolfe, father of John and Charles Wolfe of St Francis died last Thursday afternoon, January 12 at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, a widowed daughter, with whom he had made his home for several years, in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Mr. Wolfe was born Sept 25, 1844 in Lawrence burg, Indiana, being past 88 years of age at his death.

It is alleged Henry Clay Wolfe name carries back nearly one hundred years before his birth around 1744 when the General James Wolfe, stormed the heights of Quebec and determined that this continent should be English instead of French. General Wolfe was the brother of the great grandfather Henry Clay Wolfe. He always referred to the distinguished soldier as Uncle James.

• Fact: Military Service Listed in Life Sketch

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 13 February 2018, 15:25), entry for Henry Clay Wolfe(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L6L1-VJY); contributed by various users.
• United States 1850 Census [1]
• United States 1880 Census [2]....The last name is Woolf but all the childrens names match.
• 31 Jan 1867 Marrige to Maria Throckmorton [3]