Prince Albert Houston (Hugh) Wolfe and Martha Iredell Moore (50 and 51)

Hugh Wolfe was the 2nd child of John Peeler Wolf and Martha Tennessee Ramsey.  Hugh was born September 15, 1883 in Sweetwater, Tennessee in the Bat Creek Community.  He married Martha Iredell Moore on May 4, 1909 in Waco, Texas.  Hugh was a farmer, a streetcar motorman, and later worked for the Texas State Highway Department.

Hugh Wolfe

Martha Iredell Moore was a daughter of James Henderson Moore of Mississippi, a Confederate Civil War veteran and Mary Jane Ricketts.  Her father died in the 1890s and she and her family moved to Texas, east of Waco, where she was raised by her older brother.

Hugh and Martha had the following children:

1. Lotta Mae B: Feb. 24, 1910-m-Perrian Robert Millsaps
2.  Arminda Louise B: Oct. 12, 1912-m-Edgar Arthur Wetterman
3.  Son- Born and Died Sept. 27, 1913
4.  Martha Josephine B:December 21, 1914-m-G. C. Murphree
5.  Albert Edison B: Dec. 8, 1917 -m-Mary Ann Alford
6.  Joe Otis B:  Feb. 26, 1920 -m- Virginia Dickerson
7.  Dorotha Iredell B: Nov. 9, 1923 -m-Melvin Newsome Loveless
8.  Robert E. B: Feb. 19, 1927 -m- 1) Imogene Rafferty 2) Dorothy Marie McAfee

Lotta Mae, Josephine, and Louise

Louise and Lotta Mae

L to R: Josephine, Hugh (in back) holding Albert, Martha Iredell, Lotta Mae, and Louise

L to R: Standing in back: Louise, Joe, Robert, Dorotha,  in front: Lotta Mae and Josephine

My Great-Aunt Dorotha Wolfe Loveless wrote the following about her father and mother:

Prince Albert Houston (Hugh) Wolfe was the second child born to John Peeler Wolfe and Martha Tennessee Ramsey Wolfe.  He was born Sept. 15, 1883.

He left Tennessee when he was about 17 years of age and came to Texas to work for a cousin, Will Ramsey, on his farm near Mart, Texas.  Some time later he got a job as a streetcar motorman in Waco, Texas.  On May 4, 1909, he married Martha Iredell Moore, a sales clerk in a department store in Waco. To them was born 8 children.   One of these died at birth.Those born in Waco were:

Lottie Mae Wolfe
Arminda Louise Wolfe
Martha Josephine Wolfe
Baby boy born dead

Sometime around 1915 or 1916 Hugh and Iredell moved back to Tennessee.  it was thought that Hugh had developed some kind of stomach problem, possibly ulcers, from working with and breathing the brass from the handles and fixtures on the cars.

They moved to Tennessee and Hugh worked on different farms for a living, among them the Kirk place, the Carroll place and Frank's place.

The years in Tennessee were very difficult and sometimes unhappy, for the family especially Iredell.  While there, her oldest sister was killed in an automobile accident and her mother died also.  It was impossible for her to return home.

She recounts how it was the happiest day of her life when Hugh came in one day and said, "Let's go home to Texas."  So in 1927 they packed up their belongings and they and their 7 children came by train to Waco, Texas.  Iredell liked to tell how well behaved the children were on the train.  It was a long trip and the other passengers said at the end of it that they had expected "bedlam" but they were model children.  Lotta Mae had drilled them on how to act.  They were told not to point and they were to keep their voices low.  The kids couldn't bear to leave the hickory nuts behind so they filled their pockets full when they left.

The depression years that soon followed were very hard years.  Hugh always managed to have a job of some kind, even if it paid only 50 cents to $1.00 a day.  But the family never went hungry and were always proud of the fact that they never accepted any kind of welfare or relief payments from the government.  Hugh always paid his poll tax and took a real interest in voting and keeping up with what was going on and encouraged his children to do the same.  During these years he shoveled gravel and worked in a dairy among other things.  Then he was given a job with the Texas Highway Department.  he worked there for 27 years, until his retirement.  It was then that he and Iredell got to make a few little trips they had always wanted to make.  This time when they returned to Tennessee it was a happy trip.

Their 50th Wedding Anniversary on May 4, 1959 was a very happy occasion celebrated with family and friends.

Hugh died on July 23, 1961 at the age of 77.

Iredell died on January 7, 1975.  She was almost 91 years old.

They were good parents and taught us the right principles of life.  They were wonderful Grandparents, always had time to spend with us kids.  They were good Christians.

Hugh and Iredell

This and more can be found in the book John Peeler Wolfe: Ancestors 1765 and Descendants 1992 by Mina Belle Wolfe Feezell and Violet Kirkpatrick Wolfe.