Jabe

"Jabe," who was propped against a post, languidly pushed himself away from it, opened the door behind him and shouted: "Annabel, come out here!"

Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Jabe" Bickford, of Smyrna, before he was donor of public benefits and libraries.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

The Moses story was also inspiration for my folktale Big Jabe HarperCollins, 2000.

Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

The Moses story was also inspiration for my folktale Big Jabe HarperCollins, 2000.

Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

The Moses story was also inspiration for my folktale Big Jabe HarperCollins, 2000.

Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

The Moses story was also inspiration for my folktale Big Jabe HarperCollins, 2000.

Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

Four years younger than me, Mooner her nickname had eventually left Michigan and Jabe Mountain and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was now a chef and catering director at a catering company.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

Although Jabe and Grace were now dead, my aunt Mary lived there, maintaining both the house and the legacies of her beloved parents.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

Grace and Jabe occasionally went back home to visit and their oldest children were sometimes sent to Alabama for summer vacations with their grandparents, but by the time they had eight children, none of them were taking any interstate car or train trips.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

As my dad told me, Jabe Cook Jackson “cultivated himself as a latter-day patriarch, styling himself on those pastoral Hebrews of yore.”

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010