Dorastus married twice. First wife fell on a butcher knife coming down out of loft and killed her.
Dorastus was the son of Edward and Hannah (Huntley or Ely) De Wolf, married -------, and their Pennsylvania home was a log house which stood between the present Jason Case house and the William B. DeWolf home now owned by Harry Brewster. Dorastus was big, blonde, handsome man. He and his wife had twenty-one children born to them, several of them dying in infancy.
Some of them were as follows: Alva, who married Mary Pomeroy of Albion, Pa. She was born near Kidders corners. About 1852, they moved to Illinois and died there. They had no children. Sophia married ---- Lindsey and lived in Missouri. Cordella married a Jones in Iowa. Juliet married ---- Baker, who lived near Sherman's Corners, East Springfield, Pa. Malinda married ----- Shaw, and lived I the west. Angeline married Daniel Levins of Kidders Corners, Albion, Pa. She tired of him before marriage and tried to break her engagement to him, but he insisted that she marry him, and in his despondency, he climbed a hemlock tree in the woods and refused to come down. So, finally, she was induced, partially by others, to marry him, which she did, and lived in poverty, for he was shiftless and of no account. When he climbed the tree and refused to come down her (Angelina's) father remarked, "Let him die, damn him."
Dorastus moved to Illinois in about the year 1852. Their son, Alva and wife, accompanying them. They broke up their home near Kidders Corners, at Albion, Pa., loading their household effects into a wagon, and wnt to the home of his wife's people. "Whose names I have not been fortunate enough to find). They stayed overnight, starting on their journey early in the morning. Old Auntie De Wolf, being a little old lady and very much stooped by hard work, found it very tiresome to ride so she walked most of the way. She had that yer's fleece of wool carded and made into yearn. She knitted socks, as she trudged along behind the wagon, carrying her ball of yarn in a basket on her arm. On reaching Chicago, she sold the socks she had knitted and bought a much-wanted silk dress for herself, with the money. This old Auntie lived to be 90 years of age.
Information from the De Wolf family history written by Estella and E. Jay DeWolf in the years of 1929, 1930 and 1931.
There was a handwritten notation on the document that states Dorastus died in his home in Lee County, Illinois on April 16, 1887 age 72 years. This is different than the date stated on the memorial.
Dorastus was the son of Edward and Hannah (Huntley or Ely) De Wolf, married -------, and their Pennsylvania home was a log house which stood between the present Jason Case house and the William B. DeWolf home now owned by Harry Brewster. Dorastus was big, blonde, handsome man. He and his wife had twenty-one children born to them, several of them dying in infancy.
Some of them were as follows: Alva, who married Mary Pomeroy of Albion, Pa. She was born near Kidders corners. About 1852, they moved to Illinois and died there. They had no children. Sophia married ---- Lindsey and lived in Missouri. Cordella married a Jones in Iowa. Juliet married ---- Baker, who lived near Sherman's Corners, East Springfield, Pa. Malinda married ----- Shaw, and lived I the west. Angeline married Daniel Levins of Kidders Corners, Albion, Pa. She tired of him before marriage and tried to break her engagement to him, but he insisted that she marry him, and in his despondency, he climbed a hemlock tree in the woods and refused to come down. So, finally, she was induced, partially by others, to marry him, which she did, and lived in poverty, for he was shiftless and of no account. When he climbed the tree and refused to come down her (Angelina's) father remarked, "Let him die, damn him."
Dorastus moved to Illinois in about the year 1852. Their son, Alva and wife, accompanying them. They broke up their home near Kidders Corners, at Albion, Pa., loading their household effects into a wagon, and wnt to the home of his wife's people. "Whose names I have not been fortunate enough to find). They stayed overnight, starting on their journey early in the morning. Old Auntie De Wolf, being a little old lady and very much stooped by hard work, found it very tiresome to ride so she walked most of the way. She had that yer's fleece of wool carded and made into yearn. She knitted socks, as she trudged along behind the wagon, carrying her ball of yarn in a basket on her arm. On reaching Chicago, she sold the socks she had knitted and bought a much-wanted silk dress for herself, with the money. This old Auntie lived to be 90 years of age.
Information from the De Wolf family history written by Estella and E. Jay DeWolf in the years of 1929, 1930 and 1931.
There was a handwritten notation on the document that states Dorastus died in his home in Lee County, Illinois on April 16, 1887 age 72 years. This is different than the date stated on the memorial.
Dorastus married twice. First wife fell on a butcher knife coming down out of loft and killed her.
Dorastus was the son of Edward and Hannah (Huntley or Ely) De Wolf, married -------, and their Pennsylvania home was a log house which stood between the present Jason Case house and the William B. DeWolf home now owned by Harry Brewster. Dorastus was big, blonde, handsome man. He and his wife had twenty-one children born to them, several of them dying in infancy.
Some of them were as follows: Alva, who married Mary Pomeroy of Albion, Pa. She was born near Kidders corners. About 1852, they moved to Illinois and died there. They had no children. Sophia married ---- Lindsey and lived in Missouri. Cordella married a Jones in Iowa. Juliet married ---- Baker, who lived near Sherman's Corners, East Springfield, Pa. Malinda married ----- Shaw, and lived I the west. Angeline married Daniel Levins of Kidders Corners, Albion, Pa. She tired of him before marriage and tried to break her engagement to him, but he insisted that she marry him, and in his despondency, he climbed a hemlock tree in the woods and refused to come down. So, finally, she was induced, partially by others, to marry him, which she did, and lived in poverty, for he was shiftless and of no account. When he climbed the tree and refused to come down her (Angelina's) father remarked, "Let him die, damn him."
Dorastus moved to Illinois in about the year 1852. Their son, Alva and wife, accompanying them. They broke up their home near Kidders Corners, at Albion, Pa., loading their household effects into a wagon, and wnt to the home of his wife's people. "Whose names I have not been fortunate enough to find). They stayed overnight, starting on their journey early in the morning. Old Auntie De Wolf, being a little old lady and very much stooped by hard work, found it very tiresome to ride so she walked most of the way. She had that yer's fleece of wool carded and made into yearn. She knitted socks, as she trudged along behind the wagon, carrying her ball of yarn in a basket on her arm. On reaching Chicago, she sold the socks she had knitted and bought a much-wanted silk dress for herself, with the money. This old Auntie lived to be 90 years of age.
Information from the De Wolf family history written by Estella and E. Jay DeWolf in the years of 1929, 1930 and 1931.
There was a handwritten notation on the document that states Dorastus died in his home in Lee County, Illinois on April 16, 1887 age 72 years. This is different than the date stated on the memorial.
Dorastus was the son of Edward and Hannah (Huntley or Ely) De Wolf, married -------, and their Pennsylvania home was a log house which stood between the present Jason Case house and the William B. DeWolf home now owned by Harry Brewster. Dorastus was big, blonde, handsome man. He and his wife had twenty-one children born to them, several of them dying in infancy.
Some of them were as follows: Alva, who married Mary Pomeroy of Albion, Pa. She was born near Kidders corners. About 1852, they moved to Illinois and died there. They had no children. Sophia married ---- Lindsey and lived in Missouri. Cordella married a Jones in Iowa. Juliet married ---- Baker, who lived near Sherman's Corners, East Springfield, Pa. Malinda married ----- Shaw, and lived I the west. Angeline married Daniel Levins of Kidders Corners, Albion, Pa. She tired of him before marriage and tried to break her engagement to him, but he insisted that she marry him, and in his despondency, he climbed a hemlock tree in the woods and refused to come down. So, finally, she was induced, partially by others, to marry him, which she did, and lived in poverty, for he was shiftless and of no account. When he climbed the tree and refused to come down her (Angelina's) father remarked, "Let him die, damn him."
Dorastus moved to Illinois in about the year 1852. Their son, Alva and wife, accompanying them. They broke up their home near Kidders Corners, at Albion, Pa., loading their household effects into a wagon, and wnt to the home of his wife's people. "Whose names I have not been fortunate enough to find). They stayed overnight, starting on their journey early in the morning. Old Auntie De Wolf, being a little old lady and very much stooped by hard work, found it very tiresome to ride so she walked most of the way. She had that yer's fleece of wool carded and made into yearn. She knitted socks, as she trudged along behind the wagon, carrying her ball of yarn in a basket on her arm. On reaching Chicago, she sold the socks she had knitted and bought a much-wanted silk dress for herself, with the money. This old Auntie lived to be 90 years of age.
Information from the De Wolf family history written by Estella and E. Jay DeWolf in the years of 1929, 1930 and 1931.
There was a handwritten notation on the document that states Dorastus died in his home in Lee County, Illinois on April 16, 1887 age 72 years. This is different than the date stated on the memorial.
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