Job Francis submitted by Conley Wolterman A farmer and stock-raiser, resided on Section 27, Galva Township, Ida County, Iowa, after coming to Ida County. He was a native of Lincolnshire, England. In the year 1854, he left his native land, crossed the ocean, settled in New Jersey, where he remained for 3 years and then came to Illinois. Later he moved to Linn County. Not content with this state, his adventuresome spirit led him across the Rocky Mountains, making his home in Utah for 4 years, and then returned to Iowa in 1872. He purchased a farm in Ida County and began to improve the partly cultivated acres. Job married in England to Jane Cumberworth, a native of the same country. They had 10 children: Emma (wife of H. Gess); John (resided on Section 27); Susan (married James Scott); Jane (married Louis Kerter); Lizzie (married Joe Stone); Sarah (married Vick Chalma); Ann (married Edward Remm); Job; Myrtle, and Ada. Mr. and Mrs. Francis made a trip in 1892 to the home of their birth, merry England, after 39 years' absence.

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