Cher... though I am not searching Hoopers... I WAS a Hooper before I married.. Descended from James Adams Hooper of the Carolina originally......someday.. it being such a small world as we are finding.... that you and I will find we are related!...And I also had an uncle named Hal (Hallburtin) and I see there are lots of those in Dickson! Lordy lordy as my granny used to say... since most of my familes came through Tennessee..I could probably walk around Dickson and find I am related to half the people there.!...I agree to to have you go on a sabbatical but you have to promise to come back! Lenora