I've been pestering everyone half to death about my Grandmother Spence's Hopper line and received far more than I ever bargained for in the mail today--over three hundred pages of material, including pictures. Surnames connected with my grandmothers line include: SPENCE SPENCER KESSLER VAN FOSSEN HARDING INMAN MCCOY WILLIAMS AND WILLIAMSON SWALLOM etc. I'm going to be posting this material to my website, but it is really going to take a while. Now, I have to write my mother and let her know that her sister, Marian Elizabeth Spence, married a distant cousin, Albert William Van Fossen, and probably didn't know that they were distantly related! I was trying to find out the surname of the sisters who married James Hopper of Jasper County, Mo and William D. Kessler of Jasper County, MO. I found it--Swallom. Elias Hopper, brother of my William Hopper, married a Mary Jane Swallom, and this great family of Swalloms moved from Ohio to Iowa and Missouri. James Hopper's wife was Lovilla. I don't know the first name of the wife of William D. Kessler--but I'm digging and I shall find! The Inman connection is going to be interesting because it appears to take place in Kansas around the turn of the century when a Harold Inman married into this great big line. I had an uncle named Harold Inman; this isn't the same person. But now I need to find the Kansas Harold Inman's line. I'm beginning to think that it will connect with Missouri or Tennessee Inmans somewhere. There is even a Spencer family connected with all of this in Iowa--so I have to find out more about them. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Sheryl. You and your aunts have done an amazing job with my grandmother's family! I will certainly read and enjoy, and make the information available on my website! Barbara Dr. Barbara Inman Beall, Ph.D, BIBeall@email.msn.com, BBeall43@yahoo.com Lancaster-Wormiston Press P.O. Box 173 Broomfield, CO 80038-0173 Home Page and for Access to Website: http://mail.ancestry.com/ancestry/users/bibeall