Wolfe Family | Greene Family | Hancock County, TN
“I’ve Lived a Wonderful, Wonderful Life” by Inez Wolfe Greene. “Written Mostly About Memories About My Childhood and Family.” Inez wrote this in a notebook and I typed it up. I so enjoyed reading it and intend to read it over and over. Here’s a link to it:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ubOgzspN8LTZqIqYewLTYJCDB1IHrg-GtJARvr1664g/edit?usp=sharing
I will use a book publishing company that does “Print on Demand.” How does this work? You create your book, lay it out, format it to their specifications (so nothing gets cut off at the edges), etc. and submit the book to them. They figure up how much it will cost them to print and add their profit, price the book, and list it for sale online. They only print books when they are ordered, so there is no need to commit to purchasing 500 books or anything like that. This book will be available to order for anyone who is interested in it, once I complete it of course.
What I am currently working on:
George A. Wolfe, son of David Wolfe and Virginia Jane Greene, with their children. George lived from 1860 to 1932. We have mail and receipts addressed to him from the early 1900s. Their home on Stoney Fork is now gone. We do know where it was and I will be going there to take a picture of the spot it sat and put it on a map (I will be making a map of Trent Valley to show where homes, stores, etc. were back when it was Luther, Tenn.).
Sherman (1895-1985) married Tennie Greene. Their children were Edna Wolfe Trent, Vance Durward Wolfe, Willis Wolfe, Jewel Wolfe, Inez Wolfe Greene, Ophair Wolfe, Gerald Wolfe, and still living George Wolfe.
Tip (1880-1953) married Nancy Seal. Their descendants include J.D. Fugate.
Lee (1885-1918) married Sarah Cantwell. Their descendants include Margaret and Janice Wolfe.
Mary Jane (?-1918) married Henry Drinnon. Their descendants include Durward Drinnon.
Dora (1892-?) married Henry Trent. Their descendants include Joe, Don and Clark Drinnon, and Ilene Trent Seal.
Hester (1898-1939) married John Sherman Odom. Their descendants include Clifford Odom, Mary Thelma Cloud, who compiled the book Trent Family Tree published in 1978, and former TN Commissioner of Agriculture Ken Givens.
An almost complete genealogical history of George and Victoria Trent Wolfe family is listed in the Trent Family Tree book, including Recollections of them by Clifford Odom, which I hope to include in our book and am seeking permission to use parts of the Trent Family Tree book.
Growing up in a family rich with fascinating stories, I’ve realized our loss since my grandmother and great-aunt passed on. Some of their stories and memories were never recorded and will be soon forgotten. There are things like genealogy, birth and death dates, marriage dates, and land ownership that can be traced years down the road. Lost is that sense of a person you can glimpse from a handful of good stories.
Recording those stories and memories is my goal. My intention is to create a book with the pictures, stories, memories, and genealogy from our family, the Wolfes and the Greenes. It’s truly a large undertaking, I know. We have a large family and I’ll be asking for input from many people, in the form of pictures, information, and stories, and then compiling it all into a format we can have printed as a bound book. It’s a big project, to be sure, but it’s important to me and I think it will be appreciated by others in our family.
We may end up with a combined book with two sections: Greene and Wolfe. We may end up with one book encompassing both. That will have to be fleshed out when I’ve gathered more input. I’ll use this site to help myself stay organized and let our family follow along as I record our stories.
“..what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.”
― Ellen Goodman
“My charge, then, in putting down my pen, and giving over this work to posterity, is this: Take the time. Take the time to preserve the stories, the photographs, the small mementos that mean so much. This is your legacy to future generations. Give it the attention it deserves. Your children and your grandchildren will thank you for it.”
― Laurence Overmire, One Immigrant’s Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants
Creating Our Family History Book 