William Wesley Job (1819 - 1872)

Born 24 Dec 1819 in Page, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Ann Job — married 27 Oct 1845 in Page, Virginia, United States

Died 20 Feb 1872 at age 52 in Canton, Lewis, Missouri, United States

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Biography

William was born in 1819. He was the son of Jeremiah Job and Margaret Tharp. He passed away in 1872.

Letter William Wesley Job wrote to Elisha T. Robertson (1860)

Letter written by William Wesley Job Dated January 30, 1860

Addressed to: Elisha T. Robertson
Page County, Virginia
Hope Mills Post Office

• Lewis County Missouri January 30th 1860.
• Dear friend. I take my pen in hand to address a few lines to you. I received your letter in due time, it afforded us much pleasure to hear from you all, it found us all enjoying good health. We are still in the enjoyment of the same blessing. We have had a very mild dry winter but very little snow. Stock has done fine thus far. The wheat I think is all right thus far. The health of the County is tolerably good, all our relations are well.

• Mr. Middleton Smoot has been sick for some time with the Bronchitas, he thinks he taken cold at the Burial of Henry Brown that caused his illness.

• We have a great deal of excitement one way and another in Mo. We have a Rail Road project in contemplation to run from Canton Lewis County to Davies County Iowa which seems to engross the attention of the people at this time. Whether it will be built or not I cannot tell. There is so many old fogies among us crying out ruin, ruin, all the time that it puts a dampor on public

i mprovments in our midst. When the College was contemplated these same men cried out Ruin to the Country. But it was built and nobody hurt and is now in successful opperation. When we talked of getting a Bank at Canton a great many said Oh, it can't be done but we have also got a Bank in full Blast yielding a fair per cent above incidental expenses, and so we go.

• Brother Andrew J. is living in Shelby County this State near the Rail Road from Hannibal to St. Joseph, he has a farm out there. The Balance of them are in this Neighborhood.

• Mary Ann Job is married. To a man by the name Farr. Uncle Eldad looks old. Uncle Daniel is as gray as a Badger. They both are Babtists. I will now give you the prices of Produce & [ ?] as near as I can.

• • Flour is worth $7.00 per Bbl
  • Wheat per Bus. 1.10
  • Rye " " .60
  • Oats " " .40
  • Corn " " .30
  • Hay is worth .50 per hundred pound
  • Pork from $5. to $6.25 per cwt
  • Butter " 15 to 18 cts
  • Eggs 10 to 15 per Dozen
  • Horses from $75.00 to $100.00 per head
  • Mules from $100.00 to 200.00 per head
  • Oxen per yoke from $50.00 to $80.00
  • Milk Cows from $10.00 to $35.00 per head
  • Hogs gross are selling from $4.25 to $5.00 per hundred pounds and in great demand.

• Our Town is growing up steadily. We have four Schools within less than a mile of us besides the College. Education is one of the leading topics of the day. I like this country better than I used too, though it does not feel like old Virginia yet. Though it is fast improving.

• The people are making verry strong efforts to get good orchards and fruits of every kind. The stock is fast improving. The fine trotting horses are all the go, it is no uncommon thing to see a Horse that costs Three Thousand Dollars. We have one in Town of the celebrated Red Morgan stock that the owners have refused Twenty Hundred Dollars for. I have one that I raised from the gray mare that I brought out here with me that I suppose I could get

$600.00 for.

• To give you some idea how the world is serving of me I will give you the amount of Taxes that I paid last year $23.00. You may have some curiosity to know what we are doing for the Country in the way of raising up men to fight her Battles. So I will give their names and then you can judge for yourselves.

• Levi Scott, Amos Lee, Alice, Susanna, Booton, in honor of the Rev. A. C. Booton of Virginia, Ida, and Zachariah in memory of Grand Pa. So you have them. Three of them can read verry well and Scott can read and write and cipher and is learning verry well.

• I hope you will write to us soon and recolect that anything from there is interesting to us. Give our respects to all inquiring friends and if you see any of my relations give them a shake of the hand for me, tell them that I say I believe that they have forgotten me.

• So no more now, farewell.

• Wm. W. Job & Martha A. Job

• E. T. Robertson and Family

NOTES by Marjorie (Job) Sherman (who bought the letter off of E-Bay

• 1. The address was written on back of folded letter. A date was written twice on back of the
  • letter: June 24th 1860
  • June 24th 1860

*2. Middleton Smoot was a brother of William Smoot who married Phoebe Job in 1820. She was Wm. Wesley Job's aunt. The daughter of Zachariah Job & Elizabeth Odell. *3.. The college referred to is Culver-Stockton College, founded in 1853 and still flourishing. It is just a few blocks from Wm. Wesley Job's farm.

• 4. Mary Ann Job was Wm.Wesley Job's cousin, a daughter of Eldad Job & Elizabeth Edwards. She married Richard Broadwater Farr December 25, 1859 (a month before the letter was written).
• 5. Eldad Job was 55 years of age when the letter was written. Daniel Job was 49.
• 6. Wm. Wesley probably intended to write 'Twenty Thousand Dollars', not 'Twenty Hundred'
• 7. The spelling used in the letter was not corrected.

Research Notes

NOTE FROM MARIE Huestis (Feb 2001) - Research of Lyle (Jobe) Huestis
sent to me Ann (Jobe) Brown in 2001

• "I spend some time in looking through my mother-in-laws (Lyle) notes and research on her "Job" family. Let me give you some background on her research.

• In 1977, Lyle's (my mother-in-law) sister died. Her husband sent Lyle some family memento's that he thought would be best kept with Lyle as his son did not show any interest. Amount these items was a diary written by William Wesley Job. In reading through this diary, she found notes of the Wyaconda Baptist Church of which William was a secretary/treasurer in 1867. The notes discussed who attended meetings, discussions they had on the formation of a Sunday School program. William played a big part in getting this formed. Lyle then wrote the church in Canton, MO to see if she could obtain more information. Thus begain her genealogical research. She discussed the diary with the minister and he mentioned it was coming up on 150 years since the formation of the church and their Sunday School program and it would be wonderful to have a copy for their celebration of the churches 150 year history. Lyle was invited to be a guest speaker.

• In August on 1979, Lyle traveled to Canton for the first time in her life to be a speaker for this celebration. She took the diary, a photocopy and all her genealogical research which included the Bible records from Zachariah's diary on the birth of his children. She visited with many, many cousins and learned so much first hand of the family. It was here most cherished moments.

• Lyle wrote notes of her visits with everyone and later put the notes into her handwritten family group sheets. She also composed a journal of her trip and her discoveries after taking a creative writing class at the community college.

• Lyle did take pictures of all Job headstones from the Wyaconda Church Cemetery which I have in a photo album around here somewhere.

I also have a copy of a newspaper article that was sent to Lyle from one of her "cousins" in Canton on the bulldozing of the William Job cabin in 1980. They also sent her a peice of wood from that cabin which is something that she treasured. Lyle's father was born in that cabin in Canton."

Sources

Page County, Virginia - Genealogy and History
Marriage Records Transcribed for Genealogy Trails by Marla Snow
http://genealogytrails.com/vir/page/marr_miscellaneous.html

"Job, William W. Martha Ann Job 27 Oct 1845"

• United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZD-P53 : 22 December 2020), Martha A Job in household of William N Job, Lewis, Missouri, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

1850 -Lewis Co, Missouri Census, 48th District p. 381A

• William W. JOBE 30 VA farmer
• Martha A. 20 VA
• Lewis S. 3 VA
• Ana L. (f) 1 MO

1860 -Lewis Co., Missouri P. O. Canton, Pg 73 - 20 Aug 1860. Line 12, 502 - 505

• Job, Wm W. 41 Farmer $2300 $900 VA
• Martha 33 VA
• L Scott 13 VA
• , Amos Lee 11 MO
• , Alice 9 MO
• , Susannah 7 MO
• , Booton 5 MO
• Ida 3 MO
• , Zachariah 2 MO

Soldiers Database: War of 1812 - World War I

Name: JOB, WILLIAM W. Rank: Sergeant Conflict: Civil War Side: Union Organization: Enrolled Missouri Militia Name of Unit: 69th Regiment E.M.M. Company: M Record Group: Office of Adjutant General Series Title: Record of Service Card, Civil War, 1861-1865 Box: 44 Reel: s805

1870 -Lewis Co, Missouri Census - TOWN OF CANTON p. 588

• JOBE, WILLIAM W. 50 M w Farmer b. VA $4500 $1850
• Martha A. 38 F W Keeps House b. VA
• Alice 18 F W At Home, b. MO
• Susanna, 16 F W At School, b. MO.
• Boston, 14 M W At School, b. MO.
• Ida, 12 F W At School, B. MO
• Jacoriah, 10 M W b. MO
• Barney, 8 M W b. MO
• Charles, 6 M W b. MO
• Francis, 1 M W b. Mo.
• Anna S. 21 F W b. Mo. (should be Amos L)

• Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVQ-TRR2 : 7 August 2020), William Wesley Job, ; Burial, Canton, Lewis, Missouri, United States of America, Wyaconda Baptist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 7950367, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Note: William Wesley, Martha Ann and Amos Lee on same stone in the Wyaconda Cemetery, Canton Township, Lewis Co., Missouri.

Acknowledgment

• Research of Lyle Wynne Jobe Huestis (1979) (c/o daughter-in-law, Marie)

• Norma Jean (Jobe) Clay which she took from Bible of Gideon Madison Job

• Wyaconda Baptist Church records

• newspaper article that was sent to Lyle from one of her "cousins" in Canton on the bulldozing of the William Job cabin in 1980

• Research of Sarah Beulah Jobe Holbrook (she died in 1977) and Lyle inherited her research

• Cemetery records of Wyaconda Cemetery, Canton Township, Lewis Co., Missouri.

• Letter written in 1860 by William W. Job (transcribed and explained by Marjorie Job)