STOVER, JOHN J. & MARY IDA (WOLFE)

JOHN J. & MARY IDA  (WOLFE) according to Lancaster County, PA marriage license docket (#4213) were married on Sept 5, 1889.  He was 23 and listed as a farmer in East Earl Twp. and stated he had never been married.  Mary Ida Wolfe was 25 and lived in Fairville. She was approx. seven months pregnant at this point.  She had been married previously but had been granted a divorce on grounds of dissertation at some point earlier in 1889.

In the Lancaster City and County Directory of 1884, either he or his father is listed as a farmer in Terre Hill.

Lazarus Wolfe (Mary's father) was listed as a saloon owner in the same source as above.

The 1900 Census for Lancaster County lists the family group as:
Head
John J. Stover
B. Oct. 1866 – age 33
Farm Labor
PA
Wife
Mary I. Stover
B. Feb. 1864 – age 36

PA
Son
Barton Stover*
B. Nov. 1889 – age 10
At School
PA
Daughter
Lottie Stover
B. Oct. 1892 – age 7

PA
Daughter
Clara E. Stover
B. April 1894 – age 6

PA
Daughter
Jennie C. Stover
B. Oct. 1895 – age 4

PA
Daughter
Elasta Stover
B. Feb. 1897 – age 3

PA
Daughter
Edna O. Stover
B. Feb. 1899 – age 1

PA
Step-son
Irvin Hahn
B. April 1885 – age 14
At School
PA
*my aunts referred to him as Sylvester

The 1910 Census for Lancaster County (Terre Hill Borough) lists John J. Stover as living back with his widowed mother, Katie Stover.  He is listed as a farm laborer.  Also in the household is listed his brother Harry and sister Frances with a grandson named Lloyd (Floyd?) age 7.

According to the family group sheet I have patched together from talking to various relatives, this is what else is known at this point:

John Stover was born in Oct. 1866 to John B and Catherine (_____) Stover.  Mary Ida Wolfe was born Feb 22, 1864 to Lazarus and Elizabeth (Newpher) Wolfe and died Dec. 17, 1924 and she is buried in Terre Hill Cemetery. No one admits to knowing what happened between John and Mary Ida so that they started living apart.  Irvin Hahn married someone named Lottie - nothing further known at this point. Lottie Stover married a T.S. Diest (or Giest). Jennie C Stover married Taylor Applebach.  Elasta Stover married Ray Grube. Edna O. Stover married Louis Sturgis (of the Sturgis pretzel family).

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