(1880–1907). Career When Job was 16, his aunt Anna bought a farm in Great Neck, which Job was to manage, but after four years some defect in the title was discovered, so she never completed the purchase. They moved to Scipio, Cayuga County, New York after his marriage as discussed above, and worked uncle Leonard Searing's farm for a year. Job had met Maria about a year earlier, when he was best man at his uncle Charles Searing's wedding. Because Maria had inherited an interest in a farm in Burlington County, New Jersey, after spending the winter of 1843–44 at his mother's house (where Maria gave birth to their first child), they moved to New Jersey in 1844. They sold that property about a year later, because his elder brother John convinced them of opportunities in Virginia. In February 1846 (about a month after the birth of their second child, Anna Maria), the Hawxhurst brothers moved with their families to Fairfax County, Virginia, where they farmed 470 acres in the Vale section (about 6 miles north of the Courthouse). They restored a gristmill to mill wheat into flour using the waterpower of Difficult Run. Maria's brother Isaac Leeds also married and settled in Virginia. They worshiped at the Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse on the other side of the county, or during the American Civil War (when that meetinghouse was used by Union troops), the home of fellow Quakers Jonathan Roberts and his wife Abigail at Accotink. However, Maria died shortly after the death of her daughter Ella, leaving Job with seven young children to raise, plus the mill he and John had restored burned down. His sister Elizabeth Hawxhurst traveled to Virginia and helped with the family after Maria's death, and took baby Ella back to Sea Cliff, Long Island with her (where she eventually married and had three daughters before dying in childbirth like her mother). His brother John and wife Jane also took some of the children into their home, and adopted Janie. The brothers opposed Virginia's secession after the election of President Abraham Lincoln. They were strong Union men during that conflict, but respected by Confederate sympathizing neighbors for various acts of kindness. Job had traveled north to Washington and New York when the conflict began, but returned in the spring of 1862 when Union forces occupied what became Fairfax City, near the historic Fairfax Courthouse. The military