January 30, 1897" "She passed away like going to sleep. She was the most natural corpse I ever saw, there seemed to be a smile on her face....The burial procession was small, as every family in the neighborhood has the measles or grippe. Taylor, Mary, and little Joe have all had measles and are doing very well under the circumstances. Billie has not taken them yet, I hope he will not....Bettie you can come home if you think you won't endanger Artie's condition, but don't come if you have to neglect Artie."
February 1, 1897
(William wrote this time that Taylor, Mary and little Joe were well, but . ..)
""Billie is in bed with measles or la grippe, one or probably both....Your Ma has not slept over three hours a night in the last ten nights. Neither have I. Think God is giving us strength to wait on our children and pray that he will continue to do so. The thermometer registered below zero the day I went after Ziddie's casket. God bless her little soul which I know he has already done"
March 12, 1890 - Rienzi, Mississippi"Mr. Barney Jobe
Dear Sir,
Yours of February 20th received and contents noted. Having been to see my grandfather (John Jobe) and interrogated him in relation to his genealogy, he says he was borned in 1801 in Virginia which makes him 89 years old. His father was named Daniel Jobe and had 6 sons named as follows: Nathan, Jonathan, John, Abraham, Pleasant, Joseph Taylor, also 2 daughters could not remember their names (his mind is feeble). His father Daniel Jobe had four brothers named Jacob, Caleb, Abraham, Isaac. His (Daniel Jobe) named Samuel Jobe...
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...names of David Gallahar the other married Steven Warner. He thinks he was about 2 years old when his father and family moved from Virginia to Jackson County, Tenn. Some of his brothers moved to Mo -that was Abraham....He had 4 brothers named Jacob, ..."
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October 1900"I will write to inform you that poor old Pa passed away fifteen minutes before 2 o'clock Friday evening 28 September....Pa suffered more than pen can tell but he never murmured nor complained. He seemed to be resigned to God's will. I never saw anything to equal it, nor anything more pitiful. He was conscience until about one hour before he died and I believe he was perfectly sane at the last, he never let Uncle Malga leave the bed for hours until he died, he wanted to talk but could not. His throat and tongue was so near paralyzed he died just like he was going to sleep, perfectly easy and no contraction of the face. And no struggling. He breathed shorter and shorter exactly an hour later he became unconscious."
Letter also spoke of the funeral at Antioch Church and stated that many family members were present.
Abt 1915"Uncle Wesley Jobe said his grandpa Daniel lived with them and he remembered hearing him talk of being in the Revolutionary War. His name was Daniel Jobe. He lived to be 104 years old. His father's name was Samuel Jobe. Grandpa Jobe had some sisters -one married David Gallahar - one married a Dilliham - one a Stanton. Grandpa Pa Jobe married a Miss Pryor whose family went to Ky. Uncle Wesley didn't remember her given name. Jos. Jobe said he thought his father Uncle Tom Jobe had Grandpa Jobe's Bible. Mrs. Myers who lives with her son Billie in Muskogee, Okla. said her father's name was Nathan Jobe, a son of Daniel Jobe and a brother of Grandpa John Jobe. Her Grandmother was a Pryor. He called her Aunt "Sippy" Myer. She is 84 years old. She favors Cousin Paralee George and Uncle Wiley Jobe. She was born in Miss and lived in Miss. She has a brother Daniel Jobe who lived in Fayetteville, Ark. Her son Billie is wealthy. Aunt Sippy says her father was born in 1789 in Maury Co., Tenn and died in 1854. Hre grandmother (Mrs. Daniel Jobe) was a Pryor and belonged to a wealthy family who moved to Ky. She had an Uncle Pleasant Jobe that lived to Scott Co., Ark. He married a Shelton. She said Grandpa John Jobe moved to Mo. where her father Nathan Jobe lived but didn't stay long She remembers Uncle Jonathan Jobe Cousin Ann Jobe Burnett's father. Says he had 9 children. One of his girls married his mother's brother, Miss Asbell and moved to Ark. Her name is Suzie. Cousin Paralee Jobe George and cousin Sol lived in Checotah, Okla. They with their daughter Lena Woods, Cora another daughter lives in Muskogee."
