Beau, I see you aready have had a response about Zebulon Vance Hooker. According to my book, PARKER AND BLOUNT IN FLORIDA, p.355, Zebulon Vance Hooker was born May 29, 1890 and died Nov. 15, 1966. He was the son of William Henry "Billie" Hooker and Mahala Clementine (Langford) Hooker. I have the line back to William Hooker I, who d. in Chowan Pct., Albemarle Co., NC, ca. 1717. I have checked my original source and I find that the information was provided in 1972 by Martha Hooker Atkinson of West Palm Beach, FL. She was a niece of Zebulon Vance Hooker and she said that Vance, as he was known, died in Lake Worth, FL, of a stroke and was the father of four children. The wife is listed as "Howard Stevens" which certainly needs to be checked out. I would suggest that you obtain the death certificate of Zebulon Vance Hooker. Lake Worth is in Palm Beach County, FL. If you tie into this line, I have a lot of great information for you. Kyle VanLandingham -----Original Message----- From: Beau <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:59 PM Subject: [HOOKER] Help with Zebulons >Hello Fellow Hookers! > >This is the first time I've written the list - greetings to all my >cousins out there! I was wondering if anyone out there could help me. My >name is Zebulon Vance Hooker, III. I am 41 years old and live in Salem, >Virginia. My father is, fortunately, still with us. He will be 80 in >October. We have a small mystery on our hands and that's why I'm writing >in the hopes someone out there may be able to help. > >My father was not born with the name "Zebulon Vance Hooker, II". His >name on his birth certificate is "William Huper Harbaugh Hooker". He did >not know this until he was in his mid thirties. He found out when he >requested a copy of his birth certificate, and found that the name he >expected to see was not there! Fortunately (or no?) his mother was still >alive at the time, so he asked her why the "William" name was on his >birth certificate. > >She told him that his father was Zebulon Vance Hooker, and had died of a >brain aneurism shortly after my father was born and after my father had >been given the name William Huper Harbaugh Hooker. So, she changed his >name to his father's name without notifying anyone. He was a baby at the >time and never knew otherwise - so he grew up never knowing he had >another name. When I was born, he passed it on to me, thus making me the >third. > >His mother was very "eccentric". I'm not entirely sure I believe what >she told him. Here's why: We have only one supposed photo of my father's >father. It doesn't look anything like him. Supposedly, the "first" ZVH >died in Richmond, Virginia (where my father was born) around 1922-23. >There is no record of that in the obituaries in the Richmond papers. In >fact, I can't find *any* records of him existing in Richmond at all. > >But I *did* find a Zebulon Vance Hooker in *Florida* - who was born in >1890. That would have made him 30 years old when my father was born. He >did not die in Virginia, but Florida, and lived into the '60's, I >believe. I wonder what the odds are of TWO Zebulon Vance Hookers living >at the same time - one in Richmond (who mysteriously disappeared) and >one in Florida? > >But, stranger things can happen - I just found a "Zebulon Hooker" (not >sure if his middle name is Vance or not) who lives - now, I believe, - >in Boynton, Florida. His phone number (like mine!) is unlisted. In fact, >Florida seems to be *the* happening place for Hookers!! > >Sorry to ramble! Is there anyone out there who may have some information >about a Zebulon Vance Hooker who may have been in the Richmond, Virginia >area around 1919-1923 or so?? Does anyone know of the Zebulon Hooker in >Boynton, FL?? Any advice on how I might solve this mystery? I can be >emailed privately at: mailto:[email protected] Everybody calls me >Beau. Thank you all for putting up with this and any help you might be >able to provide! Best wishes! > >Zebulon Vance Hooker, III (Beau) >Salem, VA > >