From Beth Colvin
Date: 13 Aug 1998 08:17:40 -0700 PDT
Subject: [CA-GOLDRUSH] Most Wanted: Sigfried WOLFF
Sigfried WOLFF, b 1854 in Berlin came to America in the 1870s and enlisted in
the army, in the county of Trinity CA, (Weaverville to be exact). He renounced
his allegiance to the Emperor William the First of Germany and became
naturalized. The witnesses to his signature on April 14,1879 were a Morris GOETZ
KARSKY and Isaac ABRAHM. Sigfried married Bertha JACOBS (Jacobowitz) from
Visseck, Germany (near Berlin), in San Francisco and they had my grandfather,
Jesse WOLFF in WA state in 1888. Sigfried had two brothers: Gustav and Hermann
WOLFF and possibly sisters as well in Germany. Rumor has it there was a big
argument between Sigfried and his family so he left home, and when a brother
came to America to help mend things, Sigfried was stubborn and refused to mend
the break. I am as stubborn as Sigfried and will look and look for my ancestors
until I find them. I have recently learned Pauline GOETZ WOLFF 1818-1903 was the
mother of Sigfried WOLFF. I have also learned that Gustav WOLFF's daughter
Regina WOLFF married Albert TUCHLER 1899 in Berlin. Beth Colvin in FL.
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