Hi, I am looking for more on my Dean family: grandfather John Gilbert DEAN, b. abt. 1876, d. 6 Nov. 1933, son of Franklin Dean (Deen) and Sarah THOMPSON, m. Joanna SKIDMORE. I have the names of Grampa Dean's siblings but not a lot more, other than family stories I heard as a child. Other (better) researchers have done a lot of work on Ball, Cawood, Coldiron and Skidmore. Most of my families had been in Harlan from the earliest days. So we are also connected to Farmer, Fee, Ledford, Noe, and many others. For years I would bet anyone I met who had been born in Harlan, or whose parents had been born there, that we were related. We always were. My oldest sister would say the nicest thing about Mom and Dad bringing us to Ohio to live was, we could marry men we weren't "blood kin" to. Sharon Wilson