Thomas Kelly (Tom) Isbell has a new book out about acting: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566081114/103-0554393-7503836?v=glance&n=283155 He is a grandson of Rollie Carroll Isbell and his second wife Verna Vida Wilson. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shane&id=I07464 Rollie C. was a great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Isbell & wife Lettice (Hickman). http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=shane&id=I07464&style=TEXT Tom is the author of several plays as well and now teaches acting at the University of Minnesota. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410747/ http://www.alumni.umn.edu/Tom_Isbell.html?Type=PR&SEC=%7BE0D766D3-696E-42B4-AD8D-E35F26C49DD1%7D http://www.bestcareanywhere.net/aftermash.htm http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=34613 http://movies.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=131806 http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/kiosk/0602kiosk/winners.html some maternal ancestry of this branch of Isbells: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1538846&id=I2439 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:1538846&id=I2439&style=TEXT http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=michelotti&id=I270803&style=TEXT