Blair Wolf (1928)

KEPHART, LOWE, WOLF

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 1/28/2006 at 16:07:56

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 13, 1928
Page 3

Mortuary

Blair Wolf

Blair Wolf was born at Marlboro, Ohio, February 2nd, 1841, and came with his parents to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1855. The following year they located in the Honey Grove neighborhood, northeast of West Branch, about three miles. He lived with his parents and occupied his time working on his father's farm and teaching school. During that period he also improved an eighty acre claim in Marshall county, boarding himself and breaking the virgin prairie. He, however, was with his parents until he enlisted in the United States service, having been mustered into the service as a member of Company G, 35th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. After returning from the war he again taught school, mostly in the vicinity of Tipton. In 1872 he was married to Miss Sarah Lowe, who had come to Cedar county from Ireland. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wolf, Bertha Kephart of Englewood, Colorado, and E. J. Wolf of Ft. Collins, Colorado. A brother, Hon. W. P. Wolf of Tipton, also served his country during the war of the rebellion and was afterward elected to the congress from the Tipton district and was speaker of the house during the Twentieth General Assembly.

For several years, after he was married they lived on a farm near West Branch, where his health failed and he never fully recovered from a disease contracted in the army. The farm was sold and the family moved to Tipton. In 1902, Mr. Wolf came to Winterset, where he bought a farm of 240 acres near Barney. He also bought a lot on Court avenue and built his home, where they moved in 1902 and resided there for some twenty-five years, with the exception of two prolonged visits to the home of their son in Colorado. They returned from the last of these visits early this year. Mrs. Wolf died at the family home in Winterset, last summer, and Mr. Wolf accompanied his son to their home in Colorado, in October, where he died Tuesday, December 4th.

Mr. Wolf was a man of moral ambitions and had more than an ordinary natural ability. It was a delight to read the papers he composed for the Madison County Historical society, and a number of his original poems were read at soldier reunions. He used the purest of English and his penmanship was neat and legible. He delighted to don his Grand Army uniform and take part in Grand Army parades. His health began to fail nearly a year ago and he was comparatively helpless for some months. The remains were taken from Fort Collins to Tipton, their former home, where the burial occurred on Friday, December 7th, 1928, services being held from the Presbyterian church.

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