Generation No. 1
(Mid 1800s)
JOHN (Joseph) PHILLIP WOLF
was
born 1844 in Germany, immigrated to America at some point, lived in Ohio and
Wisconsin (and perhaps other places) and died in 1912 at Superior, WI,
at the age of 68.
In 1864 John Phillip married "Barbara"
last name unknown, who likewise immigrated to America - probably with
him.
Barbara and John Phillip had only one known child,
HARRY JOSEPH WOLF. Harry was
born on June 12th in 1889 at Columbus, Ohio.
Generation No. 2
(Late 1800s)
When their son was twenty years old he,
HARRY JOSEPH WOLF,
married
MARGARET
BARBARA HAAG in 1909. Margaret was the daughter of
JOSEPH
HAAG and CATHARINA REIDER (Kathryn Ryder) who were both born in Ohio. Harry
worked as a paperhanger and decorating contractor. Harry and Margaret had
3 children.
Click here:
Haag/Reider Ancestry
Columbus Ohio Dispatch June 16, 1909
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.
Generation No. 3
(Early 1900s)
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
_______ Peck and have a daughter. Helen Peck died on February 22, 1995
in Hanceville, Cullman, AL. She was 85 years old!
Question: Was her husband William C. Peck who was divorced from a
Helen C. Peck in Broward County, FL in 1953??
Their first son and second child was
JOSEPH PHILIP WOLF
who was born February 10th in 1913. The family had moved from Ohio
to Superior, WI sometime before Joseph was born in Superior. Joe would
grow up to marry MARY ELIZABETH BALLENGER
on February 12, 1933. They had three children, born in Columbus
Ohio, one of whom became a Miss Ohio Joe only lived to the
age of 40. He died in April of 1953, back in Columbus OH.
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.
1914 Photo: Harry Joseph Wolf, his wife Margaret Barbara Haag Wolf, and their
daughter Helen Christine Wolf. Taken in Wisconsin when Helen
was 4 yrs old
.
About a year after Harry died, Margaret married a Lewis Stiffler;
they were said to be very strict and lacking in displays of affection
for family.
1930
Census for Columbus OH, District 147,
24__ Pontiac Street:
Brothers, Donald L. Wolf (age 11) and Joseph Wolf (age 17) were
living with the Stiffler family as Stepsons. Their mom, Margaret,
had married Lewis H. Stiffler in 1927. In 1930, Lewis owned their
home valued at $2,500, was 44, worked as a mason. Margaret and her son
Joseph Philip Wolf worked as paper hangers for an interior decorator.
She was 41; he, 17. Lewis had first married at 19 (to another woman)
and Margaret had married her first husband Harry at age 20. The
daughter listed on line 3 (name illegible) worked as a backer in a shoe
factory. No other members of the household were employed.
