Sherry Balow wrote Sunday: >I've started digging around in HAMILTON roots---finally connecting through >Sarah Hamilton, a sister of John Alexander Hamilton, who married George >Acton. Most of my information is from family history. My family notes say that Sarah was an aunt of my g grandfather JA Hamilton. He did have a sister Mary Martha Hamilton who married James H. Acton. Perhaps we should get together offlist and work on this. <wink> >"Notorious" is one of my favorite words so look forward to hearing more. >Afterall, black sheep are people too. I was researching great grand-uncle Sam Hamilton a few days ago and found the interesting and colorful articles about him that Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert, Stacey McDowell Dietiker, and Cordelia Suzann had kindly copied for the IADECATU files. I put them together and sent them to my family for their enjoyment. I then decided to join the list and say Hello... Here are the article URLs for you, arranged in chronological order by date of article: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/crime/disgracefulrowhamiltongrimes.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/crime/francesamhamiltoncrime2.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/crime/samhamilton.html http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/IADECATU/2003-09/1064452356 http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/crime/samhamiltonshooting.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/crime/hamiltonfrancenotguiltyplea.html There are many more interesting articles at http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu Steve Puckett, non-notorious