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John Jacob "Mountain Jake" Wolfe, Jr.
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees. (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;)
Database online.
Record for John Jacob Wolfe
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source)
Database online.
Record for Lewis Wetzel Wolfe Sr
- Wikitree.com.
Jacob Wolfe and sons were men of a venturesome spirit and powerful physique, capable of enduring the hardships of frontier life, protecting themselves and their families against the wild animals and Indians in the untamed virgin wilderness. When peace came, they laid aside the gun, picked up the ax, and radiated into all areas of Preston County. From 1754 - 1763, the Wolfe's log cabin located at Stony Creek settlement in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia was used as a Fort, where the pioneers took shelter from the Indians. Late in 1770, Jacob (? - 1799) and Catherine (? - 1824) Wolfe and their family emigrated to Deckers Creek, Monongalia County. Their children are as follows: George (1752-1827) married Nancy Barb (daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Caulfelt) Barb), and lived near Cuzzart, Preston County. He was the first settler to build a commodious log house having a chimney in the center and fought in the Revolution. Their children: Jacob (1782 - ?), known as "Left-handed Jake", married Rachel Briggs, had two sons who went to California as "Forty-Niners"; Daniel (1794-1873) married Anne House (1794-1864), fought in War of 1812; Christinia (1795-1880) married Jacob Guseman (1786-1878); Henry went West 1835; Anthony (1799 - 1843) married Mary Matlick (1804 - ?) (daughter of Joseph Matlick) lived in Pleasant District; Martin married Elizabeth Sine, lived in Sugar Valley; Sarah married Emanuel Hamed; Susan married Jacob Feather (1796 - 1864); Abigail married John Sine.[1]
Jacob was born in 1754. Jacob Wolfe passed away in 1834. [2]
Information from Bishoff and Sisler family records show the death date as 1824 (KKemp 2022)
John aka 'Mountain Jake' was born in 1754; died ca. 1834.
*Jake served in the Revolutionary War. He lived in Lennox, Preston Co., West Virginia. He later lived in Zanesville, Ohio.
*Moved from the Stoney Creek section of Shenandoah County to the Wetzel settlement in what is now Preston County, WV before 1782. Fought in the Revolutionary War. For five years lived, hunted, trapped, and fought with the Wetzel brothers. He married their sister Christina in Wheeling, Virginia in 1774 and settled in Lenox, Pleasant District, Preston County, Virginia.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wolfe-676
- Morton, Oren Frederic. A History of Preston County, West Virginia. (Kingwood, WV: Journal Publishing Co., 1914)
pg. 388.
Jacob Wolfe settled as early as 1785 on the farm now owned by Ezekiel Feather, about one mile form Willey. After the murder of the Green family by the Indians, he moved to Wheeling, and remaining about five years, came back and bought of David Morgan the farm now owned by the Metzlers. He married Christina Wetzel, sister of the celebrated Lewis Wetzel. Jacob Wolfe had neighbors by the names of Isaac Barb, James Webster, Augustine Wolfe and Reuben Askins. His children were Jacob, John, George and Lewis, Sallie, Margaret, Eliza and Susan. Lewis Wolfe, now 81 years of age, makes his home with his son Josiah in Maryland. He was a successful hunter, and on one occasion, kneeling on the ground, shot three bucks without changing his position. Lewis's children living in Preston County are Eugenus, near Pleasant Hill, David and Mrs. Jefferson Cupett, near Cranesville, all of Portland District.
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