Memory Lane: Jesse Logan Jobe and Georgina E. Holman Descendants


A PERSONAL STROLL THROUGH THE PAST

Jesse Logan Jobe and Georgina E. Holman Descendants

Reminiscing Through Old Writings
(Actually written by Jobe Descendants)

Many of our family have left us a legacy of personal writings (Bible entries, diaries, letters, memoirs), which help us to visualize their daily lifes. We have attempted to collect as many of these letters as possible. By strolling downward, you may slowly linger over each one or quickly jump to a particuliar group - click on category below. Have a letter to post, please e-mail Freida Wells or myself, Ann Brown.

(In memory of our Jobe ancestors whose writings appear here.)


Writings


Interview with Louis Preston Jobe, age 79

2004 by daughter-in-law, Patti Jobe

(s/o Oma Louis Jobe, gs/o Jesse Logan Jobe, gt gs/o Abraham S. Jobe, 2nd gt gs/o Logan Jobe, 3rd gt gs/o Elisha Jobe, 4th gt gs/o Enoch Job(e) Jr, 5th gt gs/o Enoch Job Sr., 6th gt gs/o Joshua Job, 7th gt gs/o Andrew Job Jr.)

1928-1950's Sperry, Tulsa Co., Oklahoma

Talked About the Depression

"In 1934, our situation was really bad. Dad (Oma Lewis Jobe born 1902 OK - died 1968 OK) couldn't find work, like so many others. He would cut wood, do odd jobs, anything at all to earn money. Often the thing that earned more money than anything else at the time was coonhunting and selling the pelts. We were so poor at this time that all we were eating was water biscuits and water gravy. The local dr--a family friend--told my dad that my brother and I were malnourished and we were going to starve to death if we didn't get some real food. There were 5 grocery stores in town at that time and Dad went to each one, asking for credit. No one would give him credit. He stopped back again at the first store, owned by Mr. Poulton, and told him that his boys were starving and he would do anything to get them some real food. Mr. Poulton must have felt sorry for him and gave him $5 credit. Dad got $5 of groceries, which was a lot of groceries then! He brought it home and we ate so much we felt sick! One week later a man came to town and bought 2 oil leases. He asked for a man to tend them and someone recommended Dad (Oma Jobe), for the job. Dad said he'd do it. He rode a horse to and from the oil leases, twice a day. In the morning he'd go hook one well on and unhook the other, as the engine could only power one well at a time. Then he'd go to the other oil lease and do the same. In the evening he'd go back and switch the wells. This way there was always one running day and night. In a month the owner came back and was so pleased that he bought Dad a 1928 Nash so he could drive to the oil leases instead of riding the horse, and gave him a check for $60. That was a fortune! Dad never went anywhere else but Mr. Poulton's Grocery after that, because he was the only one who gave him credit when he desperately needed it."

Additional Details as told by Patti:

Interesting notes about this!--the man who owned the oil leases was named Floyd Kinley. He moved to Sperry and lived across the road from the Jobe family before the Jobes moved into town. Floyd Kinley was son of Karl Kinley, and brother of Myron Kinley. Myron was known as the 'Grandfather of Oil Well Firefighting'. Karl and Myron were the first to use nitroglycerin to put out an oil fire in 1913. The MM Kinley Oil company, out of Houston TX, and their oil firefighting, were famous. After Oma started working for the Kinleys, his brothers soon followed and six of the Jobe brothers worked for the MM Kinley Company. John Jobe, Oma's brother, had an especially lucrative and interesting career, working with Red Adair. Red Adair started his career in the oil fields of Oklahoma, working for the Kinleys. When Myron retired, Red Adair started his own firefighting company in 1959 and was immortalized in the movies when John Wayne played Red Adair in "Hellfighters". Red Adair just died this August 2004. Floyd Kinley had a company north of Sperry called MidContinent Torpedo Company where they made the nitroglycerine bombs that they shipped all over the world for use in putting out oil well fires. Floyd was killed at a fire in 1937, his widow ran the nitro bomb company after his death.

Two Links you might want to check out:

Kinley - Wild Well Control
Kinley - Introduction and Invention

"When I was 12 years old I had two jobs--a paper route and sweeping the school. I got $3 a week for the paper route and $1.25 a week for sweeping the school. I did both jobs for 4 years. So I made $4.25 a week which was more than some men were able to get then. A widow lady had opened a clothes shop in town to support herself and I went in and bought my mom a gingham dress for 98 cents. She knew my mom so she picked out the right size. I was so proud to give my mom that dress! The storeowner always remembered me buying my mom that dress, would mention it even into the late 1970's before she died--she always liked me and told me many times she wished I had married her daughter--ha! With those two jobs, I bought my own clothes and for my younger brother, too. I was able to help my parents and I was very proud to do it."



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