Hi Jackie, remember me? I have made a little progress with my Brisbin/Brisben/Brisbane line...and because of the info you sent me on the line that Linda Bell Brisbane of Churchville, PA was researching, I have found some cousins going off from Hannah Maria Brisbin who married Samuel Hatcher in 1832. Also a possible link to Mary (?Clark?) YOUNG, who married John Brisbin, in 1796, pos. Lancaster Co., PA I tried the phone number you gave me for Linda Bell Brisbane, and it has been disconnected. Do you have a new one? I tried to find one but no luck. It will break my arm to have to send snail mail! I am still trying to find out what happened to my James P. BRISBEN, from 1909 on. After his wife Rose (Wallner) Brisben died in Galesburg, Knox Co., IL in 1909 I can't find him or the two boys George and James H.....find the boys again in 1920. I do know that in 1920, George, age 13 and James H., age 15, BRISBEN were living with their Aunt Kate (Wallner) MURPHY and her husband Hugh and daughter Georgiana in Perry Township, Monroe, IN...just outside Bloomington, IN. At that time they were still spelling their name BRISBEN.....sometime between 1920 and 1928, George and James H. changed the spelling to BRISBANE... and somewhere between 1920 and 1925 the brothers ran away to Washington...George went off on a tramp steamer and James joined the Merchant Marines....so the family story goes. The story is that their father James P. Brisben, remarried and they had some bad experiences because of it and ran away. But I have also heard that James P. died within 10 years of Rose's passing. Another story is he lived until 1950 and the boys did not speak to him. My great aunt (George's wife) says my grandfather James Hugh Brisbane, went to Notre Dame for two years before going to Washington. If anyone knows anything about James P. BRISBEN born about 1873??, pos. Louisville, KY, Son of Samuel R. BRISBEN, b. abt 1830, d. 6 Aug. 1905 and Mary Elizabeth (FOREHAM/FOREHEM) BRISBEN Grandson of James Young BRISBIN, b. aft 1790, in PA or IN. (Jefferson Co., IN?) Thanks, Linda Jenkins Wensel