Job Craycraft Foster was born in Jackson Co, Ohio on 2 Feb 1850. He moved with his parents and siblings, to Jasper County, Illinois prior to 1853. His older brothers William Foster and Jonathan Foster went off to war early with the rest of the "Jasper boys" (Jasper County enlistees for Union forces from Illinois in the Civil War). Left behind at home with his sisters, and brothers Thomas Hartley Foster, John Vinton Foster and Francis Samuel Foster, Job was restless and chafing to get into some action. Late in the war, an underage Job, who was big for his age at about 14, left home and joined up. Job soon discovered that war was not the romanticized stuff he thought it was. He wanted to come home. However, he was in the Union army and he had fought in some battles before his mother, widow Mary "Polly" Trexler Foster was able to get him discharged from the army, on account of his tender age. Job remained at home for the duration of the war. In September 1883, he was awarded an army pension for his service. He married Jane Evans, who was called "Delia." ***Except for only one generation since the 1600s, every one of Job's Foster ancestors had moved at least once in a generation. In most cases, these men moved several times in each generation because the Foster men worked in at iron furances, from the mid-1600s until the mid 1800s. Job's father, Thomas Foster was born at an iron works site in Kentucky, then moved to Jackson County, Ohio where his father Samuel Foster worked in iron. Thomas lived in three states before 1860: his father Samuel had lived in four states before 1860. Jon himself lived in four states before his death in 1927. Job's grandfather Samuel Foster was the last of the Foster men in this family to work in iron. Samuel Foster took up land in Jasper County, Illinois, and moved with his family that included his wife Sarah Throckmorton Foster and their children, that included Thomas Foster and his wife Mary "Polly" Trexler and their children (including Job). Polly's Trexler's aunts, uncles and cousins came to Jasper County from Jackson County, Ohio in 1853. Like his ancestors, Job Foster was restless. Leaving Jasper County, for good, Job and his family went to Texas with the Marker family. Some time around 1880, Job had enough of Texas. He moved his family to Orland, California, where he bought a ranch on which to grow wheat. During this time, he had an idea for a better grain car in which to move his wheat harvest. He designed it, built it, then applied for and received a U.S. Patent for it. Job became restless again and wanted to move, He took his time, but decided on Oregon. He had two brothers, Thomas Harley Foster and Francis Samuel Foster who lived in Tillamook County, Oregon. He moved to their area and lived and worked in Meda, near Oretown on the coast. He owned and operated a saw mill, then he had a ranch with a herd of dairy cows. He joined the Tillamook Masonic Lodge. His Ohio-born brothers William Foster (d. 10 Feb 1844), Thomas Hartley Foster (d. 6 Nov 1926), and Francis Samuel Foster "Frank" (d. 25 Oct 1930), and his Illinois-born nephew Arthur Garfield Foster (d. 1934) who was William Foster's son, are all buried in the Oretown, Oregon Cemetery. Job and Delia Foster are also buried in Tillamook County, but in the Gist Family Cemetery. Job's brother William was mustered out of the Union Army early in the Civil War as the result of medical disability (rheumatic heart disease). Job's older brother Jonathan Foster died in a Chattanooga hospital as a result of wounds he received in the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia. Jonathan is buried in a military cemetery for Union soldiers in Chattanooga, in Civil War grave #5,325. Samuel Foster and Sarah Throckmorton Foster, their son Thomas Foster, and Thomas Foster's daughter Evelline Foster are buried in the Foster Family Cemetery that was on the Foster farm property. This family burying ground was accessible until the large light and power company came to Jasper County. The graves, now untended, lie on the power company land, behind a chain link fence.