Male line only here, folks. I'm researching the line of my father, Jacob Gaston Webb, born in Hamilton, Alabama. His father was Benjamin Grover Webb, born in Hamilton, Alabama. Benjamin was the son of Jacob Douglas Webb, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Jacob was the son of William Douglas Webb, born somewhere in New Jersey somewhere between 1813-1818, but who died in Hamilton, Alabama in 1896. There are several guesses as to the New Jersey town William Douglas Webb was born in: Cape May or New Hampton are the leading contenders, but no one really knows because that information was lost years ago. William Douglas Webb -- our family's brick wall -- was supposedly half-Indian (his mother was supposedly from Canada), and ran away to sea from his New Jersey home at the age of 14 (which would be between 1827-1823). According to a long lost letter, he had four brothers who "went West," and "a bunch of sisters." He did a lot of boxing while at sea, apparently for money. After spending around 14 years working on coastal ships, William Douglas Webb finally disembarked in Mobile, Alabama, and eventually made his way up to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where in 1842 he married Louisa H. Boyd; his age at that time, as given on the marriage certificate, was 29. By then William's family thought he was dead. William did not get in touch with them until late in life, when he he had one of his sons (Melvin) write a letter to "an old maid sister" at his old New Jersey post office (William might have been illiterate, although another story says he had vision troubles). This "old maid sister," who was still living in his New Jersey home town, told him his father had remarried and "raised up a whole new family." That letter was lost, so we do not know for sure who his father's name was, or what town in New Jersey William came from. DNA testing shows our line of Webbs to be connected (we don't know how far back) to the Price and Cooper families. Anyone know anything about this Webb family? BETTY WEBB, author of the Lena Jones mystery series, Poisoned Pen Press www.bettywebb-mystery.com DESERT RUN, March 2006. "Multifaceted, fast-paced" Publishers Weekly DESERT SHADOWS, 2004. "A classic of the mystery genre." Mystery News DESERT WIVES: POLYGAMY CAN BE MURDER, 2002. "Eye-popping!" New York Times DESERT NOIR, 2001 "An elegy for the lost West... strong on atmosphere and insight." Booklist