- 2008 - Tidbits By George Jobe
----Childhood in Alcorn Co., MS
My connection to the Jobe Family is as follows:Arnold Taylor, George Franklin, Wiley Taylor, John F., Daniel, Samuel, Caleb, Andrew, Andrew Sr.
I was born and spent the first 21 years of my life in Alcorn County, MS. Since that time I have visited 29 foreign countries, each of our United States and have lived in Mississippi, Texas, Nebraska, Alabama and New York, also The Azores and Philippine Is.
In response to Stanley's "Memory Lane" contribution regarding John F. Jobe, Jobe's Crossing, Jobe Town etc. I will share some of my memories. Our family farm, south of Corinth , MS was split by the GM&O Railroad. Jobe's Crossing was about a half mile down the track from our house.
During my childhood and teen years GM&O ran a passenger train from Cairo, IL to Mobile, AL and reverse. It consitsted of a few passenger cars and we called it the "Doodle Bug". There was a passenger shelter at Jobe's Crossing. The train would stop if you waved your handerchief. The southbound train passed at 9:00 a.m. and the northbound at 3:00 p.m. The fare south to Booneville, or north to Corinth was twenty-five cents. Sometimes I would go to the all day gospel singing in Booneville on the morning train, have a hamburger lunch in the "trolley" restaurant and return to Jobe's Crossing on the afternoon train all for about one dollar. Those were good days.