After having read with interest the posts regarding Halls not talking, etc., the past few days, I have decided to join in with my dilemma. My grandfather John Hall (middle initial E. or C.) was apparently also very closed mouthed. Although I never knew him (he died before I was born), I have been told by his daughter, aged 93, that 'you just didn't ask'. And they just didn't volunteer. Information I have been able to gather in the past 7 years; John said he was born c. 1860 in TX or AR or MO or LA, depending upon which census one is reading. That he was 'from' TX. Burnet or Victoria or Goliad Co. Also depending upon which written account one is reading. He left TX with a cattle drive headed for MT around 1880. He stayed in MT, married and lived out the rest of his life until 1937, on the Blackfeet Reservation. John said his parent's names were; David Hall and Mary or Annie King. He never talked about siblings or grandparents. Although there was an Ada Wilson mentioned. Some say she too was his mother? or grandmother? And that she was somehow related to Woodrow Wilson. I defy anyone to find a David Hall family in TX at the right time, in the right place, with the correct family members to match up with this family. The closest I have came in 7 years, is to find an acquaintance that John mentioned having known back in TX and that is Sterling C. Cross, a judge in Hood Co. Who would have been 40 years John's senior. At least I know this guy really existed and actually did have a family there. If any of this rings any bells with anyone out there, please let me know. I guess I just couldn't help sharing my miserable plight with the rest of the world. Thanks for listening, Sherry