Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Wolf

The Wolfs and Silas and Rebecca Shelburn were among the first settlers of Dobyville in the 1850s. Mail reached the community as early as 1858 through a post office called O'Hair's Hill, and after it closed letters came by way of Naruna or Lampasas. A Dobyville post office opened in 1874 with Thomas S. Wolf as postmaster. It closed in 1884, reopened in 1889 under the name Pomona and lasted until 1900, after which the mail went through Naruna again.

What the plaque says

Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Wolf Jacob Wolf (1812-1874) and wife Adeline Faulkner Wolf (1814-1870) came from Tennessee to Texas about 1850. Obtaining land grant in Burnet County, they settled at Dobyville, and were pioneers, supplying their own provisions, buildings, medicines, and school. Menaced by Indian raids and aware of need for government, Wolf in 1854 help organize Burnet County. Of the 8 children, 2 sons became sheriffs-- one in Burnet, one in Lampasas County. Recorded - 1967

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 9.2 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Inks Lake State Park — 15 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 16 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 17 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.

More markers nearby

• Dobyville Cemetery — steps away
• Lake Victor Lodge No. 1011, A. F. & A. M. — 3.1 mi
• Naruna Baptist Church — 6.2 mi
• Bethel Cemetery — 6.8 mi