Ernest F Wolf (1887 - 1938)

Born 28 Aug 1887 in Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, USA

Died 14 Nov 1938 at age 51 in Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA

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Biography

Earnest was born in 1887 in Rock Port, Atchison County, Missouri, to Joseph Henry Wolf and Cyntha Lauretta Sparks.

He registered for the WWI draft in 1917 in Atchison County, Missouri.^[1] He was already married to Essie Martin by the time of the draft, and working as a farmer and stockman. He was described as tall and slender with dark blue eyes and dark brown hair. Earnest asked to be exempted due to having to support a wife and child, to work the farm, having relatives in Germany, and having kidney trouble.

In 1920, they were living in Polk, Atchison County, Missouri, and had a three year old daughter, Bernice.^[2] By 1930, they had added a son, Harold, to the family.^[3]

Ernest passed away in 1938. Burial was in the Linden Cemetery in Watson, Atchison County, Missouri.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3R4-49W : 12 December 2014), Ernest Wolf, 1917-1918; citing Atchison County, Missouri, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,683,090.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8WG-FHG : 14 December 2015), Earnest F Wolf, Polk, Atchison, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 10A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,903.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHXM-KFG : 8 December 2015), Ernest F Wolf, 1930.
4. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2F-C4GQ : 13 December 2015), Ernest Wolf, 1938; Burial, Watson, Atchison, Missouri, United States of America, Linden Cemetery; citing record ID 68702330, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.