E. N. WOOLFOLK, widow, Potosi; born at Paris, Bourbon Co., Ky., Aug. 24, 1824; daughter of Simpson and Frances (Thomas) Oldham; came to this county with her parents, in 1837; in 1846, married Mr. Woolly, an Englishman recently from Ohio; had one daughter - Frances C. J., now Mrs. Geo. H. Lewis (merchant), Potosi. Married second time, in 1849, to James O. Woolfolk, of Charles Co., Mo., who died March 4, 1856; had two children, one of them, Susan R., still living and at home, unmarried, 28 years of age. Mrs. Woolfolk has 300 acres of land, three dwellings in Potosi, and considerable mineral land. Her first husband was an officer in the Black Hawk war, and received a land warrant, which she located. He was one of the first settlers in this township, and built the first furnace, and afterward erected a large blast furnace at Rigby's Hollow.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.