K-listers, I've been asked to remove this information from the list for the author's personal reasons. I'll try but I'm not sure it's possible. In any event, if you can and wish to help her, please communicate privately. Ask me off list for her email. Dick Kinkead > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Heather Vallance > To: rkinkead11@comcast.net > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:14 AM > Subject: Thomas KINKADE Blake > > > Richard, I received your email from Nancy at Kinkead Ridge. I am a family > friend who is a writer and historian. I noticed in one of Nancy's recent blog > posts that Kinkead is sometimes spelled Kinkade. This intrigues me as I have > been researching a John Young Filmore Blake for the past 10 years. He was a > much maligned historical player at the end of the 19th century. > > > Blake's father was Thomas Kinkade Blake who was born in Tennessee in 1813. > His father was Thomas Blake born in Georgia just after the Revolutionary war.