This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/305.351.1.1 Message Board Post: In reference to your Stella Hamilton questions: Mattie Hellen Hamilton married my relative, Ernest Linser. I haven't read over all of my Linser history for awhile to give exact answers to locations in California. I know Blue Rock, Bell Springs and Benbow are all in the same area where the Linser's lived. Mattie and Ernest's daughter, Vera, married Walter Benbow. I have a lot of history on this family, but saw no reference to any John W. Crooks, in my QUICK glance through the notes. If you have any more questions about the Hamilton's, I can help you in that area. Mattie was the sister of John W. Hamilton. She was born in Kentucky and moved to California after her father died.