Jane married Will Wolfe on 22 October 1876 and they homesteaded in the Palouse between Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. They were the postmasters during the brief existence of the Clinton Post Office from 1877 to 1890, and they donated a corner of their property where the Clinton Country School was built. After Will died in 1927, her nephew, George Harold Largent, came and ran the farm for a few years. Later she moved to Kendrick, Idaho and spent the last year of her life in a nursing home in Clarkston, Washington. Their children are: John, Rosella "Ella" (Adams), and Glen Wolfe.
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A. John William Wolfe 10 April 1879 - 10 September 1969
John was born in the log cabin on his parents' homestead. When he was 18, he met Minnie Stratton, a girl who grew up just two and one half miles from the Wolfe homestead. They were married on 15 September 1901 at her parents' home one mile southwest of the Wolfe home. He and Minnie had three children: Edna (Barnett), Ronald, and Dorotha (Barnett) Wolfe.
1. Edna Wolfe 3 September 1903 - 13 August 1987
Edna was born in Walla Walla. She married Rutherford A. Barnett (Russ). Edna was graduated from Lewis Clark Normal School. She taught and put Russ through the University of Idaho. Robert, Don, Joe, and Kenneth Barnett.
2. Ronald Stratton Wolfe 28 May 1905 - 15 January 1998
Ronald was born on the Stratton farm near Pullman, Washington and was graduated from Lewiston High School in 1925. He married Pearl Johnson on 19 May 1929 in Kendrick, Idaho. Their five children are: Wilma (Pochardt), Alice (Roberts), Evelyn (Dahlberg), Virginia (Floch, Barnett), and Vivian Wolfe.
3. Dorotha Agnes Wolfe 10 March 1908 - 23 February 1943
Dorotha was born in Walla Walla, Washington. She married Tom E. Barnett on 4 September 1927 in Lewiston, Idaho. Dorotha had tuberculous and was placed in a sanitorium in 1939, when her daughters went to live with her parents on the ranch near Asotin, Washington where they stayed until 1943. At age 35 Dorotha died of tuberculous at Asotin, Washington. Their two daughters are: Roberta (Mellick) and Ruth (Olney) Barnett.
B. Rosella Maude Wolfe 22 October 1880 - 26 January 1965
Ella was also born in the log cabin on the Wolfe homestead. She attended Washington State College in 1901 and 1902 and married Charles H. Adams (Charlie) of Unionview, Missouri in Moscow, Idaho on 17 December 1903. they farmed near Pullman until 1912 when they bought a farm near Killam, Alberta where the family moved in 1913. They returned to the states upon retirement. Charlie died on 19 August 1951. Ella lived with Mabel for several years before moving to the River View Rest Home in Clarkston, Washington where she spent the last two and one-half years of her life. They had three children: Mabel, Jesse, and Amy (Robinson) Adams.
1. Mabel Adams 18 October 1904 - 12 May 1967
Mabel was born on the Wolfe homestead. After her parents moved to Canada, asthma forced her to return to the States where she finished high school and college while living with her grandparents, Jane and Will Wolfe. She married Arthur Smith in 1926. She was the first female Civil Engineer graduated from WSU and had a Master's degree in Chemistry. She worked for Boeing during World War II. They had no children but adopted an adult, Roberta Eileen Smith Peterson. Arthur died on 11 March 1963. The asthma medication Mabel had taken most of her life weakened her heart resulting in a fatal heart attack at age 62.
2. Jesse Clair Adams: 11 November 1906 - 4 June 1938
Jesse was born on the Wolfe homestead. He married Mary Spohn of Strome, Alberta on 7 February 1925 in Edmonton, Alberta. He died in an automobile crash in Oregon at age 31. They had one child: Stanley Adams.
3. Amy Rebecca Adams 24 March 1908 - 18 December 1992
Amy was also born on the Wolfe homestead. She completed Normal School at Camrose in 1926 and became a school teacher. Her first job at a country school in Castor, Alberta lasted until 1934. She married William Floyd Robinson in Camrose, Alberta on 19 August 1934. Amy remained very active until her death at age 84. She is buried in Killiam next to Floyd. They had one child: Doris (Milke).
C. Glen Wolfe 4 June 1890 - 30 November 1973
Glen was born on the family homestead between Moscow and Pullman. He secretly married Beulah Kroh at Coeur d'Alene's Presbyterian Church on 1 February 1913. Beulah was the teacher at the nearby Clinton School. At this time female school teachers were not allowed to be married, but it was doubtless worse to have the neighbours or pupils think the teacher was living in sin. Glen lived with his parents near the school where Beulah taught, and Beulah continued boarding with nearby neighbours until the end the 1912-1913 school year while they kept their marriage a secret from the local community. Glen and Beulah made their home in Spokane for most of their married lives. Their four children are: Helen (Orrin), Georgia (Corman), Maxine (Gaetano)(McGarrity), and Jack Wolfe.
1. Helen W. Wolfe 1 November 1913 - 14 March 1987
Helen was born in Walla Walla. She married Orrin A. Tracy in Moscow, Idaho. Orrin served a career in the U.S. Army retiring as a colonel. He died of cancer on 16 May 1975 in Davis, California. A brain tumor which took her life at age 74 also forced her to move to Philadelphia to live with her daughter, Judy. She and Orrin had two children: David and Judith (Cassada) Tracy.
2. Georgia Wolfe 13 December 1914 - 1 January 2007
Georgia was born in Walla Walla, Washington. She married Bqrke Corman on 14 August 1945, in Coeur d'Alene in the same church in which her parents were married. She has lived most Of her life sInce in Longview, Washington. Burke died on 29 April 1966. They have four children: Jerry, Julie, John, and Jean (McAlpine) Corman.
3. Maxine Wolfe 30 November 1919 - 13 November 2008
Maxine was born and raised in Spokane but spent most summers during her youth on her maternal grandparents' farm. She married Lou Gaetano, and they managed her father's apartments for several years. They were divorced, and she reared the six children. She went back to college and was graduated from the University of Idaho. She began teaching when she was 43 and taught school for 24 years. She retired in 1986. After rearing her children, she married Jim McGarrity who died about six months later of cancer. She and Lou had seven children: Richard, William, Mary Lou, John, Mary Ann, James, and Janis.
4. Jack Wolfe 15 October 1921 - 8 December 1993
Jack was born in Spokane, Washington. He married Helene Jane Rogers on 10 April 1947 in the Westminster Congregational Church in Spokane. He put in a career with the USAF retiring as a major. They currently were living in Eugene, Oregon at the time of his death at age 72 of cancer. They had two children: Jack and James.
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