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From - WHO's WHO IN NEBRASKA, 1940 : Published by the Nebraska Press Association, Lincoln, NE

WOLFE, ASA A: County Superintendent of Schools; b Wellfleet, Neb Aug 11, 1889; s of Silas C Wolfe-Sarah C Puckett; ed Indianola HS; Doane Coll; PSTC; U of Ia, 23-24; U of Besancon France; BDI, BA, MA: Phi Delta Kappa; m Alice Mae Thomas
Aug 28, 1917 Indianola; s John Allen, Charles Robert; d Mildred Louise, Marjorie Kate, Ina Mae; 1912 tchr, Keith Co; 1913 supt of Cowles schs; 1916-17, 1919-23 supt Riverton Ia schs; 1924-27 supt Greene Iowa schs; 1927-82 supt Kanawha Ia schs;
1932-34 farmed new Indianola; May 22, 1934 apptd supt Redwillow Co schs; Nov 1934- Redwillow Co supt by election; 1917 during World War in Co C 355th in batt sgt major, disch 1919; C of C; Kiwanis; NSTA; Neb St Co Supts Assn; AF&AM; Congl Ch;
Dem; off Courthouse; res 411 East 2nd, McCook.

Uncle John Wolfe remembers, " The nighe that brother Charlie died three times. His heart would speed up to a tremendous rate the heart and breathing stop. He had measles and whooping cough at the same time. He was one year old. Dad would just
not let him go. He put him in hot water, pummeled and spanked him and the heart would start again. The doctor would not come to see him, saying Dad was doing everything possible. He would not let Mother in the room. I kept the water hot. After
the third ressurection he told me to go to bed, that the crisis was past.

Asa married Alice Mae THOMAS on 30 Aug 1917 in Rev. Charles Gearheart, Congregational parsonage. Alice (daughter of Robert Hanson THOMAS and Kate DUNNING) was born on 6 Dec 1890 in Indianola, NE; died on 9 May 1975 in Billings, MT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Esther JAMESON. Esther was born in 1911; died in 1979. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Silas married Sarah Catherine PUCKETT on 28 Jan 1886. Sarah (daughter of Allen N. PUCKETT and Rebecca COURTNEY) was born on 27 Jul 1864; died on 04 Mar 1890; was buried in 1890 in Indianola Cemetery, Indianola, Red Willow, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There is a grave marker in the Indianola Cemetery that says "Silas C WOlfe 1852 - 1905 Sarah C. His Wife 1864 - 1890

It looks like polished granite wih a flower engraved on the left. There is an emblem of some sort above the names, but I can't see what is is from the photo.

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reference, TRAILS WEST TO RED WILLOW COUNTY NEBRASKA by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge

In 1878, Robert Thomas, Verdon Glandon, Ed Leash and Charlie Hoag, made a pleasure trip from Illiinois and liking the country, they all took land. He was a contractor and builder, being one of the first in Indianola. He helped to put up many
of the first buildings such as school houses, churches, businesses, and homes. He was a charter member of the Congregational Church in Indianola, a member of the Old Settlers' Association, the Modern Woodman, the Eastern Star and the Masonic
Lodges. He died at his home just west of town, after being in poor health for over two years.



Uncle John Wolfe, " G-grandfather Puckett told Dad (Asa Wolfe), ""I don't know why you want to marry that Thomas girl. All your sons will be bald headed."" True, to the third generation."



Ina Mae Wolfe remembers that when grandpa Bob Thomas was old, he began to think that people were trying to steal his carpenters tools. To save them he began burying them, and then he would forget and think that they were stolen. When the family
went to visit, Asa took Ina around the yard looking for signs of places that had recently dug up in the yard. Then they would recover the buried tools.



From a newspaper article dated "THURSDAY JULY 16, 1931" VOL. XXXIX



R.H. Thomas Succumbs

Pioneer Builder Answers Call



Robert H. Thomas, pioneer builder and farmer of Indianola and Red Willow County, died Monday afternoon at his home just west of town. On Sunday he had eaten a hearty dinner and was taken sick some time during the night. Monday morning
Mr. and Mrs Wolfe called the doctor for him but he was unable to do more than relieve Mr. Thomas temporarily.

Mr. Thomas had been in poor health for the past two years and his death was not unexpected, although it is, nevertheless, quite a shock to his family. He was seriously ill shortlu before the death of Mrs. Thomas two months ago, but
appeared to gain strength again. His mind has been clouded the last few months and never seemed to realize that Mrs. Thomas was gone.

Mr. Thomas was one of four young men who came to this country together in the late seventies and homesteaded. From this experience came a friendship that has endured as long as they lived. V.J. Glandon is the only remaining member of
the quartet. C.B. Hoag, another member, died three years ago.

Mr. Thomas built many houses in and around Indianola and McCook, among which is the old Indianola high school building which, after 45 years of service, is still in use and is in fairy good shape. He was generous to a fault, a good
neighborand a loving husband and father. He leaves a son and two daughters; Robert Jr., of Puyallup, Wash., Mrs. A.A. Wolfe of Kanawha Iowa, and Mrs. E.H. Korb of Indianola.

The community has suffered a severe loss and we extend our sincere sympany to his family.

Robert married Kate DUNNING on 15 Mar 1883. Kate (daughter of Cyrus DUNNING and Lucy Ursula WHEELER) was born on 21 Jun 1857 in near Mound City, MO; died on 16 May 1931 in Indianola, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Uncle John Wolfe, there were 10 or 12 Thomas graves of children in the cemetery at Indianola, Nebraska. He also says, Grandmother praticed abortion. When dying she asked Mother, "Do you think I will go to heaven? " This would be confirmed by the 1900 census where Kate said that she had 11 births, three living.

Ina Mae Wolfe remembers that when she was very young and the family went to Indianola for Grandma Kate Dunning Thomas's funeral, Ina broke out in a terrible rash. Grandpa Bob Thomas took her around the yard asking finding out exactly what
plants she had touched while she was out in the yard. It turned out that she had been bitten by bedbugs instead. Because of the rash, Ina was sent over to stay with Mary, the former foster child of Bob and Kate Thomas and so missed the
funeral.



"My first view of Indianola was the 25th of April '78 (1878). It was a very nice looking clean, little place-- a store, drug store, court house, a small little school house, a hotel, and a small dwelling house or two. A buffalo cow laarriated
out east of the town some little ways was a novel one to us at least.

While the size of the town was not so ________ as we had grown up in Nebraska and had seen the small places grow along with us and sure Indianola had grown. New settlers coming in the fall and the coming of the railroad made things go fast but
we must remember the school, church and Sunday school was already well laid out and the people and children as well was glad to have those things that they were well attended by those in or living near here, I sometimes think better then than
now. The added thought is to think of so many of the glad hands extended to the new comers here who have gone to the last home. While gone they are not forgotten. Now looking at the churches and nice homes and trees you have to stop and think,
has all this been done since you first saw Indianola." Kate Dunning Thomas