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/4AB.2ACE/381.2017.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There is that chance that the James Benjamin Hopson who is my great grandfather could have had been married before, that would sort of explain why he never had contact with anybody from his past (parents, relatives, friends, etc. From the birth dates that I have of my grandmother and her brothers and sisters the James B. Hopson I am speaking of would have already been established in South Alabama by the turn of the century (1900). Do you have any marriage dates for the JB Hopson you're talking about to your g-grandmother?