Special thanks to Randy Jobe for sharing this sampler, made in 2005 by his mother, wife of Lawrence Dean Jobe. Randy write"
"My Mother always listened and was happy to know I was proud of who I am. Tonight she shared her joy in my endeavors and gave me the sampler she made of one of my favorite places in this world. I have attached a scan so all of you can see her efforts.
Joshua Jobe was born September 15, 1785 at Watauga Settlement in Washington Co., TN. He married Ruth Tipton, d/o Thomas Tipton and Sarah Broyles, on February 17, 1808 in Washington County. In 1812, he was living in Carter Co., TN where he was deputy sheriff.
We do know that during the War of 1812, Joshua Job was a private in Captain Adam Winsell's Company Regiment of the East Tennessee Militia, commanded by Colonel Ewen Allison's Regiment. He served from Jan 5, 1814 to March 6, 1814 and was discharged for disability. During his term of enlistment, he was in Battle of Horse Shoe Bend under General Andrew Jackson and marched with his army to Horseshoe, Talledega, and other battlefields, then finally to Mobile.
In 1821, Joshua Jobe moved his family to Cades Cove, Blount Co, TN where he had purchased land from William Tipton. It was the first record of a land transaction in that area.
"When I was about four years old (1821), he (Joshua Jobe) bought 640 acres of fine land in Cades Cove, Blount Co, TN, and moved to it. I can remember leaving Carter County; and remaining first night at Uncle Abraham Jobe's (now Johnson City) on the way to our new home in Blount County; the distance was about 125 miles."
This area today is now part of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. The John Oliver house, shown below, is the 1st stop on the trail through Cade's Cove. Joshua Jobe owned 640 acres at the mouth of the cove...right next to Oliver.
On May 1, 2005, Donna and her husband, Mike Briggs, me and my husband, Allan Brown, were lucky enough to visit this truly beautiful place. It was cloudy and the temperature was in the lower 60's. At Pigeon Forge, we picked up some chicken at KFC and as we entered to cove, we stopped and had a picnic lunch, one that I will never forget. Donna and My Visit to the Cove
Account recalled by William H. Oliver (1857-1940)
His grandfather, John Oliver, a collier and farmer, married a bound girl, Lucretia Frazier, and after the birth of a baby, settled in 1818 near Joshua Jobe in Cade's Cove where there were no inhabitants or cleared land. Joshua and John Oliver served together in the War of 1812. Lucretia walked to the Jobe farm to complain that it was Joshua's fault that they were there and when Joshua asked how they were getting along, Lucretia replied, "Well sir, I am starving to death, sir, that's how well."
Joshua said, "I have a brother coming in about two weeks with a drove of cattle and you shall have pick and choice out of two of them."
Since the offer was so fair, she could say nothing more. Lucretia picked two good milk cows and that fall she made soap out of butter.
The People of Cades Cove by Justice William O. Douglas"The People of Cade's Cove", Justice William O. Douglas told a different version than that of Dr. Abraham Jobe or William H. Oliver: John and Lucretia Oliver were the first settlers followed by Joshua Jobe. The Olivers had decided to leave Cade's Cove and Joshua said he would give them two heifers if they would stay. Soon the Olivers were having milk and butter and Lucretia was happy. She was the first to make soap out of butter by boiling it with drippings from wood ashes. "People were plumb fools over that soap, though 'twas able to take your hide off."
-2 males under 5, 3 males 5-10, 2 males 10-15, 1 male 16-20, 1 male 40-50- 1 female under 5, 2 females 20-30, and 1 female 40-50.
Being the real pioneer that he was, Joshua Jobe moved in 1832 to the Cherokee Land in Alabama where he was the 6th white family to settle there. Their home was at a place called Big Spring or Wolf Stand on the old Federal Road. The area was probably in Benton (renamed Calhoun in 1858) Co., Alabama.
In 1835, Joshua bought a farm from an Indian named Beaver. It is now part of the present-day town of Ringgold, (then Walker Co, ) GA. Their farm began south of the Cherokee House and ran south along the railroad then west across Chickamauga Creek. Before 1847, Ringgold was called Dogwood.
