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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: March 14, 2009
Caption: Irene Anna Woolfolk
Additional Description: [Sign at gravesite reads:]

Irene Anna Woolfolk was born in Kentucky on Feb. 8, 1825, moved to St. Charles, MO between 1826 and 1830, and married Elemander Myers Jan. 2, 1842. He was a blacksmith and a farmer and on March 30, 1857, he took a wagon load of produce to Albright’s store in St. Louis. Somehow the store caught on fire with him in it, and he died. This left Irene a widow with five small children. She managed to make it to California (route unknown) with the children by 1863-4. She exemplifies another hard luck life. However, prior to her marriage, she had come from an extraordinarily wealthy family in Kentucky complete with square miles of farm land instead of acres and came from a slave holding family. Consequently, when President Lincoln was shot in 1865, Irene rode her horse through Amador City shouting:

”Hooray, Hooray, He’s dead.”
Submitted: March 14, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p55907
File Size: 4.691 Megabytes

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