Person:Phebe Mercer (3)

1910 Whatcom Co., WA, census, p.171A, Meridian Precinct, May 2, 1910, D.W. Letterhoff: 113/113, Elmer J. WOOLFOLK, head, M W 24, md. 4 yrs., MO IL MO, teamster, lumber mill; Phoebe, wife, F W 19, mother of 1 child, 1 living, WA PA PA; Addie E., dau, F W 2, WA MO WA; LIZZIE MERCER, grandmother, F W 65, widow, mother of 4 children, 2 living, IL OH KY; Evan Mercer, uncle, M W 38, widowed, PA PA IL, grader, lumber mill; Harry Mercer, bro-in-law, M W 9, WA PA PA.

I know very little about my Woolfolk ancestry. Would appreciate any help. My mother was adopted. Her birth family, according to the original adoption records, was mother, Phoebe Mercer and father, Elmer Woolfolk of Orofino [Clearwater Co.], ID. Mother's name, given her at birth, was Elizabeth, b. 18 June 1908. Anybody know anything about Elmer? --Orofino, ID Woolfolks, posted by Joyce Hooker <joyhook@@peoplepc.com>, Sept. 11, 2001, message 297. http://genforum.genealogy.com/woolfolk/messages/297.html

I think that Elmer and Phoebe divorced or possibly were never married. My mother was adopted when she was five to a French Canadian couple in Spokane, WA, Herman and Emely Couture. She was a sister to the grandmother of the Dionne quints. Makes for interesting genealogy. I lived with them for several years for they were my favorite grandparents. --Joyce Hooker, e-mail to Brenda Boyer, May 19, 2004

(?) Phoebe C. Woolfolk, age 97 [b. ca. 1891], d. March 17, 1988, Hopkins, KY, residence, Webster, KY. Volume 20, Certificate 9763. --Kentucky Death Index, 1911-2000 (Ancestry.com) (?) Phoebe Woolfolk, b. Aug. 28, 1895, d. March 17, 1988, residence, Providence, Webster Co., KY 42450, SSN 405-48-5757 issued Kentucky 1954. --Social Security Death Index (Ancestry.com). Nine other Woolfolk individuals b. from 1881 to 1929 listed in the same county.