Walter was born on the Woolfenden farm to Isabelle and Thomas Woolfenden on 10 September, 1886.
Reading the Kopp column of the Manassas Journal, one can get a picture of much of Walter's life. Walter was romantically linked to three women. The first was Mary Carter, a teacher who, at one time was renting a room from the Woolfenden family. They were engaged in 1931. That relationship would later break up. Next was Hattie Virginia Miller, whom Walter married in Rockville, Maryland on 29 April, 1936. They would have one child, a son, Carrol James Woolfenden, Jr. in 1938. The couple would divorce on 25 July 1948. By 6 December 1948 Walter would marry Cora Elva Wilt, who was divorced earlier that year as well.
Walter was one of the early owners of an automobile in Prince William County, purchasing a touring car on 21 Sept 1917.
Walter endured a number of legal troubles in 1931 and 1932, including serving a year in jail for stealing chickens. Walter was also accused of murder in the fall of 1931. During a trial in Manassas that gained statewide news coverage, Walter was acquitted. It was during this trial that a written record appears that Walter was almost totally deaf and difficult to understand. It is believed that this was due to suffering from starlet fever as a child. During his trial, his sister Sarah Luck had to act as an interpreter during Walter's testimony.
At the time of Walter's death on 8 March 1951, Walter was living in the Aquia District of Stafford County. His funeral was handled by the Elkins Funeral Home in Fredericksburg, Virginia and he was buried in the Woolfenden section of the Belle Haven Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in the former community of Kopp, Virginia. Kopp ceased to exist in 1942 with the expansion of the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia.
Reading the Kopp column of the Manassas Journal, one can get a picture of much of Walter's life. Walter was romantically linked to three women. The first was Mary Carter, a teacher who, at one time was renting a room from the Woolfenden family. They were engaged in 1931. That relationship would later break up. Next was Hattie Virginia Miller, whom Walter married in Rockville, Maryland on 29 April, 1936. They would have one child, a son, Carrol James Woolfenden, Jr. in 1938. The couple would divorce on 25 July 1948. By 6 December 1948 Walter would marry Cora Elva Wilt, who was divorced earlier that year as well.
Walter was one of the early owners of an automobile in Prince William County, purchasing a touring car on 21 Sept 1917.
Walter endured a number of legal troubles in 1931 and 1932, including serving a year in jail for stealing chickens. Walter was also accused of murder in the fall of 1931. During a trial in Manassas that gained statewide news coverage, Walter was acquitted. It was during this trial that a written record appears that Walter was almost totally deaf and difficult to understand. It is believed that this was due to suffering from starlet fever as a child. During his trial, his sister Sarah Luck had to act as an interpreter during Walter's testimony.
At the time of Walter's death on 8 March 1951, Walter was living in the Aquia District of Stafford County. His funeral was handled by the Elkins Funeral Home in Fredericksburg, Virginia and he was buried in the Woolfenden section of the Belle Haven Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in the former community of Kopp, Virginia. Kopp ceased to exist in 1942 with the expansion of the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia.
Walter was born on the Woolfenden farm to Isabelle and Thomas Woolfenden on 10 September, 1886.
Reading the Kopp column of the Manassas Journal, one can get a picture of much of Walter's life. Walter was romantically linked to three women. The first was Mary Carter, a teacher who, at one time was renting a room from the Woolfenden family. They were engaged in 1931. That relationship would later break up. Next was Hattie Virginia Miller, whom Walter married in Rockville, Maryland on 29 April, 1936. They would have one child, a son, Carrol James Woolfenden, Jr. in 1938. The couple would divorce on 25 July 1948. By 6 December 1948 Walter would marry Cora Elva Wilt, who was divorced earlier that year as well.
Walter was one of the early owners of an automobile in Prince William County, purchasing a touring car on 21 Sept 1917.
Walter endured a number of legal troubles in 1931 and 1932, including serving a year in jail for stealing chickens. Walter was also accused of murder in the fall of 1931. During a trial in Manassas that gained statewide news coverage, Walter was acquitted. It was during this trial that a written record appears that Walter was almost totally deaf and difficult to understand. It is believed that this was due to suffering from starlet fever as a child. During his trial, his sister Sarah Luck had to act as an interpreter during Walter's testimony.
At the time of Walter's death on 8 March 1951, Walter was living in the Aquia District of Stafford County. His funeral was handled by the Elkins Funeral Home in Fredericksburg, Virginia and he was buried in the Woolfenden section of the Belle Haven Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in the former community of Kopp, Virginia. Kopp ceased to exist in 1942 with the expansion of the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia.
Reading the Kopp column of the Manassas Journal, one can get a picture of much of Walter's life. Walter was romantically linked to three women. The first was Mary Carter, a teacher who, at one time was renting a room from the Woolfenden family. They were engaged in 1931. That relationship would later break up. Next was Hattie Virginia Miller, whom Walter married in Rockville, Maryland on 29 April, 1936. They would have one child, a son, Carrol James Woolfenden, Jr. in 1938. The couple would divorce on 25 July 1948. By 6 December 1948 Walter would marry Cora Elva Wilt, who was divorced earlier that year as well.
Walter was one of the early owners of an automobile in Prince William County, purchasing a touring car on 21 Sept 1917.
Walter endured a number of legal troubles in 1931 and 1932, including serving a year in jail for stealing chickens. Walter was also accused of murder in the fall of 1931. During a trial in Manassas that gained statewide news coverage, Walter was acquitted. It was during this trial that a written record appears that Walter was almost totally deaf and difficult to understand. It is believed that this was due to suffering from starlet fever as a child. During his trial, his sister Sarah Luck had to act as an interpreter during Walter's testimony.
At the time of Walter's death on 8 March 1951, Walter was living in the Aquia District of Stafford County. His funeral was handled by the Elkins Funeral Home in Fredericksburg, Virginia and he was buried in the Woolfenden section of the Belle Haven Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in the former community of Kopp, Virginia. Kopp ceased to exist in 1942 with the expansion of the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia.
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