Lizzie Lavore Wolfe was born in Kansas in 1863, and her family was one of the last to join the removal from Kansas. Late in life, Lizzie still recalled the date of this momentous event, and she and her family arrived at the new Ottawa reservation in Indian Territory on October 15, 1870.

Capable of speaking and reading the Ottawa language, Wolfe taught the language to her grandson, Clarence King, and by the time he became chief in the 1960s, Clarence was one of the last conversant speakers among the Oklahoma Ottawas.

In 1916, Lizzie Wolfe composed a lengthy letter that laid out a partial history of the Ottawa Indian Baptist Church and the Ottawa Tribe. Discovered in a trunk after her death, this hand-written letter was typed up and preserved by her son Walter King, grandson Clarence King, and tribal member Norman Holmes. The letter provides insight into tribal life in the late nineteenth century.