Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society. H. TOM WOLFE was born in the town of Crittenden, March 17, 1840. He was the second child in a family of ten children, five of whom are yet living, two girls and three boys. Educated in the common schools of the county, he learned the blacksmith trade from his father, who was a blacksmith and a gunsmith. He began work in the blacksmith trade for himself in the town of Gardnersville, in Pendleton County in 1860. He worked at his trade there and at Butler, in the same county, and again in Crittenden, and in 1866, removed to Williamstown and established a shop, and has worked for nearly forty years at his trade in Williamstown. He knows nearly every man, woman and child in ten miles of Williamstown, and his genial good nature has won for him a friend in almost every one of them. He has a large trade, and while well along in years, is yet a rugged type of the village smithy, so beautifully delineated in the poem "The Village Blacksmith". He was married to Miss Mollie V. Violette, October 14, 1880, one of the fairest daughters of old Gallatin, and an excellent Christian lady. Only one child has blessed their union, Wallace V., a youth of 18, who is this year a member of the graduating class of the Williamstown Graded Free School. Tom was a Federal soldier during the war, and served twelve months in the army of the United States. In politics he is a Republican, but is conservative in his views. While his better half is a member of the Baptist church, he belongs to the Christian Church, but there is no friction in the family circle caused by this divergence of opinion, as both are liberal and willing to concede the right of worship to the dictates of each other's conscience. He is an Odd Fellow of the truest type, belongs to all three branches, subordinate, Encampment and Rebekahs, while Mrs. Wolfe is also a Rebekah. The Golden Rule is his motto in all things, "Doing unto others as he would have them do unto him", being a part of his daily life. Such is H. Tom Wolfe, citizen and Christian. Wolfe Violette = Pendleton-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/grant/wolfe.ht.txt