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/Jh.2ADI/747.749.753 Message Board Post: I have your reprint of the book. Thanks for your trouble and labor of love. My great grandfather, Jack Hamblen was born and raised in Illinois, Indiana or somewhere in the Midwest. He migrated rather quickly to Texas, after alledgedly abducting his two children from his wife and her family. There are several anecdotes regarding his life. If even some of them are true, he was a very interesting fellow. I would like to find the truth, as much as I can, about this man and his progenitors. Richard Hamblen