Wolfe, Tobias Washington
Tobias Washington Wolfe  was b. 29 April 1830 in Tn. to parents Andrew Davis Wolfe and Lucinda Wolfe,  both b. Tn. 1800-1810.  The family was found on 1840 Johnson County, Ar. Census in Spadra Twp.  This census shows nine children under 15 years of age living with the parents.  Known siblings were Ellen Caroline, her twin sister Martha J., and another sister named Sarah.  A.D. Wolfe was dead by 1845.  In 1849 Tobe is found marrying Sarah Caffey  b. 22 May 1828 to parents William and Rebecca Pierceal Caffey.  The couple married in Upshur County, Tx.

Tobe Wolfe moved his family to Scott Co., Ar. around 1860.  He served in the Civil War there.  While there are several Wolfe families listed on the census in Scott Co., Ar., there has been nothing proven of any link to Tobe's family.  Tobe and his family were back in Upshur County on the 1870 census.  Eight known children were named W.A.,  Amanda,  Mary E.,  Martha A.,  Sarah Lucinda,  Tobias Washington, Jr.,  James A., and Margaret Wolfe.  The family  apparently lived in Pritchett.  Tobe and Sarah Caffey Wolfe are buried in the Shady Grove Cemetery.

Old hand-written family papers tell of Sarah Wolfe marrying a man named Hoover.  Sure enough, found is George Jefferson Hoover b. 19 June 1826 in In. to parents Abraham and Nancy Robertson Hoover living in Upshur County.  Jefferson Hoover is found on the Upshur County Census indexes.  He is found on the 1900 listing at 73 years living with his wife Sarah.  He is  buried in the Hoover Cemetery with death date of  7 Feb. 1905.  To his left is buried Sarah Wolfe Hoover who is listed as the wife of  W.M. Allen.   Apparently Sarah remarried after the death of Jefferson in 1905.  Sarah died in 1911.  Found on the Upshur County TXGenWeb  site is a listing where Sarah Hoover applied for a Civil War Widow's pension  on Jefferson Hoover and was rejected. Census lists a child named Georgia Ann  b. 31 March 1857 in Tx.  She m. James Winfield Fleet on 17 Dec. 1882 in Upshur County.  Five known children were named Arthur Henry, Oscar D., Jefferson Walter, George Elliott, and William Abijah Fleet.  James and Georgia Ann Hoover Fleet are buried in the Hoover Cemetery.

Ellen Caroline Wolfe first m. Jesse Alex Sanders b. 16 July 1837 in Hawkins County, Tn. to parents Ira Thomas Sanders and Elizabeth  Skelton Sanders.  Once again, the Sanders family was found in Upshur County, Tx.  The Sanders family is reported to have moved on to Collin County, Tx.  Two sons were born to Alex and Ellen Wolfe Sanders in 1859 and 1861 named Henry Ford and Joseph M. Sanders.  Sometime after that, Alex Sanders died.  Ellen Caroline then married a widower named John David Karney in Hopkins County, Tx.  John Karney was born in Ireland and had served in the Civil War.  Ellen requested and received a widow's pension on John.  It was from those papers that the starting data on her was obtained.  The couple had eight children.  John and Ellen lived out their lives in Hopkins County.
The last known daughter was named Martha J. Wolfe  and is thought to be Ellen's twin.  She married Levi Summers Midgett  on 1 March 1855.  Her Civil War Widow's pension papers state that she married in Rusk County, Tx.  This couple had four children and lived their married lives in Hopkins County, Tx., also.

All roads seem to lead back to Upshur County, Tx.  We are left to ponder why this family came there.  Ellen's papers state that she was in Tx. by age 4 which would tie to 1845 to the death of her father.  Yet, they have not been located.  Maybe Lucinda remarried, and the family is listed under another surname.  Maybe the children were sent to live with family or friends under another surname.  The Caffey and the Hoover families info on the Upshur County TXGenWeb  pages indicate that they came from Ohio and Indiana.  If you have any information on these families, please email Sarah Clark Stevens.

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