Michael Wolf 1820-1900

WOLFE, TILSON, HARLAN, BROWN

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 10/1/2001 at 16:15:07

WOLF.

The funeral of Michael Wolf, “Uncle Mike,” took place from the Baptist church, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. The high esteem in which he was held and the heartfelt sympathy for the family filled the house with mourning and sympathizing friends. The services were in charge of Rev. Abbott, of Harrisburg, who delivered the discourse from Luke 20:36, “Neither an they die any more.” When the community is called upon to give up a citizen of the sterling character of “Uncle Mike,” the people mourn, but he “being dead, yet speaks.”

[Michael Wolf was born Feb. 3, 1820, in Butler county, Ohio, and died in Bonaparte, Iowa, Jan. 17, 1900, aged 79 years, 11 months and 14 days. His parents moved to Wayne county, Ind., in 1831. He was married to Mavina Tilson, of Darke county, Ohio, July 2, 1842. In the fall of 1844 he moved into Darke county, where his wife died, leaving a daughter, Mary A., who died in the fall of 1845. He went to Williamsburg, Ind., and worked at his trade of blacksmithing nine months; then he went to Hollandsburg, Ohio, and married Lucinda Harlan, in March, 1848. In the fall of 1850 they came to Lee county, Iowa, thence to Oskaloosa and in 1852 to Harrisburg township, Van Buren county, and worked at his trade and at farming. His wife died there in 1859 having borne him seven children, Amanda J., Elizabeth A., Norman H., Jacob D., Mary E., Rosella B., and Josephine, none of whom survive him.

On Oct. 4, 1860 he married Narcissa Brown, of Lee county, and to this union were born five children, Sarah F., William M., David C., Effie B., and Calvin M.

They moved to Bonaparte in the fall of 1866 where Mr. Wolf worked at his trade till 1869, and engaged in the hardware business till 1871; he then followed farming until 1891 when he returned to Bonaparte, where he has since resided. He leaves to mourn his death a loving wife, two children, ten grandchildren and three great-grand children, also four sisters and a brother.

He embraced religion at the age of 21, uniting first with the Christian and afterwards with the Baptist church, of which he was a faithful, untiring member at the time of his decease. Death to him was but life; his dying day was his enlarging day, for he has been freed from the prison in which he has long been detained, and taken home to his father’s house; it was the day of his glory; the beginning of his eternal perfect bliss with Christ.]
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Source: Entler Scrapbook Collection, vol 4, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA