The Twentieth Century.

Lizzie's brother John S. Jones and his son (also John), visited her regularly from South Dakota. Both were called back East, together with their sisters Mary Thomas of Buffalo and Jane Spencer of New Castle, to bury their brother David Jones who died in July 1898 at the age of 65 of nailer's consumption.

John Wolfe was again a confectioner, found in the 1898 city directory at 1262 Kinnikinnic av. In 1899 the Wolfe's youngest child, Walter, appears in the city directory as a clerk. George was a rougher and their father John, a salesman. The family had moved to a home they rented at 270 Williams street.

The 1900 census fills out the story. John is a sales agent for teas and coffees. Son George, 27, worked at the Rolling Mills, Birdie, 19, was at school, and Walter, 17, was a window dresser at a dry goods store. John Jones, Lizzie's nephew, was living with them while working as a carpenter. As was their 30-year old daughter Lula with her two children, our ancestor 8-year old son Walter and 6-year old daughter Stella. Her husband Joseph and 11-year old daughter Mabel were in Chicago where he found work as a conductor.

Both George and Birdie married in 1902 and established homes of their own.

The 1903 U.S. Register of the Rural Free Delivery System says John Wolfe, born Pennsylvania, was appointed in the Wisconsin Milwaukee, Congressional District 4th, as a letter carrier. His compensation was $600.00.

John Wolfe was a mail carrier, as confirmed in the 1905 Wisconsin state census. In the 1910 US census the family lived in a boarding house. John, 61, was still a mail carrier married 41 years to Elizabeth age 60. Their daughter Mary, 29, a widow, was living there along with 6 other boarders. George and wife Caroline lived at 399 Herman Street with their three daughters. He still worked at the Rolling Mill as a roll hand. Walter was married to Lillian and was living in Langlade, Wisconsin. Daughter Lula and Joseph Petelle were reunited in Chicago with a home next to his sister, Matilda Odenbrett.

The War to End All Wars.

The war to end all wars began with the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir on June 28, 1914. Hostilities broke out in Europe and drew in the lands held by colonial empires around the world. The United States remained officially neutral while continuing to ship supplies to Great Britain. Over the years German submarine strikes took a heavy toll on US trade and was among the factors that led President Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war on April 2, 1917. Son Walter, age 36, joined the Marines to serve the cause.

John Wolfe died November 25, 1917 at the age of 70 and was buried the 28th at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.

Lizzie was living with her daughter Birdie in a boarding house at 645 Astor in Wauwatosa in the 1920 census. She died March 13, 1930: