John Pierce Wolf

Brief Life History of John Pierce

When John Pierce Wolf was born on 25 May 1853, in Norfork, Baxter, Arkansas, United States, his father, Jesse Heidrich Wolf, was 27 and his mother, Nancy Jane Hargrave, was 21. He married Fannie Forrest Luther on 24 July 1883. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Big Flat, Baxter, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Greenwood Township, Baxter, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 27 September 1927, in Baxter, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Mountain Home, Baxter, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Pierce Wolf
1853–1927
Fannie Forrest Luther
1865–1944
Marriage: 24 July 1883
Arthur Carlisle Wolf
1887–1972
Luther Watterson Wolf
1889–1960
Sallie Herd Wolf
1891–1961
Isaac Fensmore Wolf
1892–1957
Robert Pierce Wolf Sr
1896–1956
Estella F Wolf
1899–1984
Ruby Lucille Wolf
1903–1988
John Howard Wolf
1910–1977

Sources (15)

  • John P Wolf, "United States Census, 1860"
  • John Pierce Wolf, "Find A Grave Index"
  • John P Wolf in entry for Mrs Fannie F Wolf, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (8)

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1873

Historical Boundaries 1830: Izard, Arkansas Territory, United States 1836: Izard, Arkansas, United States 1836: Searcy, Arkansas, United States 1836: Marion, Arkansas, United States 1840: Izard, Arkansas, United States 1843: Fulton, Arkansas, United States 1855: Marion, Arkansas, United States 1873: Baxter, Arkansas, United States

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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