Brief Life History of Enoch Obed
When Major Enoch Obed Wolf was born on 27 March 1828, in Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Elijah Gideon Wolf, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Hartman, was 31. He married Eviza Ann Long on 1 June 1847, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Franklin, Fulton, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Richwoods Township, Sharp, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1846. He died on 30 October 1910, in Myron, Izard, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ash Flat, Sharp, Arkansas, United States.
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- E O Wolf, "United States Census, 1860"
- E O Wolf, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Maj Enoch O Wolf, "Find A Grave Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1843
Historical Boundaries - 1843: Fulton, Arkansas, United States
1856
Historical Boundaries 1856: Lawrence, Arkansas, United States 1868: Sharp, Arkansas, United States. [Spreads across Fulton and Sharp counties]
Name Meaning
German, English, Dutch, and Danish: from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound names with the first element wolf ‘wolf’, or a byname or nickname with this meaning, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a wolf. The wolf was native throughout the forests of Europe, including Britain, until comparatively recently. In ancient and medieval times it played an important role in ancient Germanic mythology, being regarded as one of the sacred beasts of Woden. The surname of German origin is also found in many other parts of Europe, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia, often as a German translation of local equivalents. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Farkas , Czech and Slovak Vlk , Slovenian Volk , Ukrainian and Slovenian Vovk , Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Vuk , and also Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Slovak, and Hungarian Volf . In part, this is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare De Wolf , Wolfe , Wolff , Woolf , Woulfe , and Wulf .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’, which is associated with the Hebrew personal name Binyamin (see Benjamin ). This association stems from Jacob's dying words ‘Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil’ (Genesis 49:27). Compare Volf .
Irish: variant of Woulfe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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