Posted on: Jobe Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/JobeBios/25 Surname: STARR, JOBE, MOORE, MACKATEE, BECK, RAMBO, MEYERS, LAMB, SEANY, WILSON, ROBINSON, JUTTIE ------------------------- NOTE: Following history was sent to me in Jan 2001 by Diane Smith Battersall. Diane writes that she received the history from Eugene Starr of Richmond, Indiana in 1991. This history was originally written on August 17, 1930 by Lewis M. Starr, family historian for years (1873-1954) - s/o Ira Starr and Susannah Seaney and gs/o William Starr and Elizabeth Beck and gt gs/o John Starr and Rachel Job and gt gt gs/o Samuel Job and Rachel Little. JOHN STARR FAMILY HISTORY (verbatim) This authentic history of our immediate family of Starrs is very simple and only runs back to our Great Grand Father and Mother, John Starr Sr. and Rachel Jobe Starr, who with their four sons and one daughter came from the impervisthed and worn out soil of North Carolina during the winter of 1807-1808 and settled in what is now section 18, Twp. 12, range 1 west, Union County, Indiana. This part of Indiana was yet inhabited by many Indians when this brave couple arrive. John and Rachel Starr spoke low German and from this fact verified by at least three of their grand children we take it for granted that they were German or of German descent, and they spoke German to each other up to the time of their deaths John Starr was a man of a slow and retiring nature and was born Nov. 28, 1768 (most use Dec 28) and died Jan. 30,1846. Rachel was born Feb. 15, 1775 (most use Jan 15) and died Feb.22, 1866. She had no relation that we have any history of only that we know her name was Jobe. They had two children born to them after coming to Ind. This vulnerable couple who formed the trunk of our family tree at this time is a foundation that we descendants are justly proud, for they were of high character and necessarily of brave and venturesome disposition to have faced the many dangers and privations of establishing themselves and us in this wonderful environment of ours. Their seven children were John Jr. who married a Jobe; Thomas; and Jesse married twice, wives unknown, lived at Greencastle and he had children; Jonathan married a sister to Samuel Moore of Boston, Ind.; Sarah married John Mackatee; Samuel, the youngest; and William, the one which most of us assembled here today are descendants. William Starr was born in the year of 1809, March 19, the year following his parents arrival in Indiana territory, and before they had yet built a substantial house. He was born in a hut not much more than a shelter of bark and brush, as told by at least two of his own children. Inured to toil, privation and hardship from early childhood he reached his majority of a fine physique and most excellent bodily health which was retained throughout his protracted life by his temperate and abstemious habits. William often has told it that he well could remember how the Indian boys would come over to his father's house after whiskey and how he would try to see which could shoot their arrows the highest and how some would come down on the house tops and stick in the clapboards of the roof and he emphasized the peculiar fact that the Indian boys could not be induced to go up and get them in the day time but would invariably come back and get them the following night. He was a man of keen wit, stood high in the estimation of his friends, neighbors and acquaintances and while he was a man of but little schooling he was exceptionally well read and of outstanding ability. On Sept. 2, 1830 he was married to Elizabeth Beck, a most amiable woman that was born in Fleming County, near Lexington, Ky., and was endowed with the gift of always knowing how to do right. Her father's name was Jeremiah Beck and her Mother's name was Mary Knight and after coming from Ky. they lived around Boston and Abington, Ind. No other history seems to be available of the Becks or the Knights at this time. Elizabeth Beck had four brothers and three sisters, the brothers names were Simian, John, Milton and Joame and but little is known of the brothers at this time. The sisters names were Anna, who married Isaac Rambo and they had one son, Jackson. Rachel and Sally married brothers by the name of Meyers, first names not known. Sally was a twin to Elizabeth, bringing into our history the first record of twins. William and Elizabeth Starr were permitted to live together for fifty one years during which the fourteen children were born to them and on this one-hundredth anniversary of their marriage two are still living. Their children according to their ages are as follows, James, married a Jobe; he was killed by a tree, Louisa, married James Lamb, Elias, died age two, Jackson, died at the age of seven, Ira, married Susannah Seany, Louisina died at the age of eight months, Jane, married William Lamb, Lafayette married Lucy Wilson, Maria, married Henson Robinson and is still living, Mary Ellen, still living and William who married Catherine Moore. One peculiar coincident is that four of these daughters married two sets of brothers. Cynthia and Mary Ellen, the only living ones of this third generation, as we call it, have the tender and loving care of their niece Alice Juttie, who by her skillful nursing and affectionate treatment been able to prolong the lives of the vulnerable members of our family for which she has gained a place in our hearts that will never be forgotten. On account of their physical condition they could not be present here today but expressed their desire to be with us on this occasion. It is by these two that have been spared to this ripe old age that we have obtained much of this history and it is by them that we are able to verify the authenticity of it all. Lewis M. Starr, Historian Aug. 17, 1930 Link: JOBE, JOB, JOBES, JOBS - Links to Great Information! URL: <http://members.tripod.com/~ajobebrown/Jobe.html>