This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lamb, Hamm, Ham, or Hamn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4250 Message Board Post: I'm searching for any information about a James L. Lamb or Hamm, Ham, or Hamn that may have come up missing from your family about 1850 to 1870. Many years later he made a deathbed confession to killing a man in Tennessee, changing his name and fleeing to Texas. Circumstances are unknown. He married Sarah E. Jowers, born in Mississippi. It is unknown if they married there or after he arrived in Texas. Information from an 1880 census shows that he was a carpenter by trade. He was born in Tennessee <1833> and his father was born in North Carolina, his mother was born in Tennessee. James was my great great grandfather and I would appreciate any information on his real name and the family that he left behind.