Comments on: The Recovery of Clark Hamblin

By: Edje

Edje — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:45:06 +0000

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. And what J. Stapley said.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:41:39 +0000

These stories are dear to me; and I understand the hesitancy in sharing some of them. But I appreciate this. Thanks.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:34:51 +0000

Also, not to be picky, but the town's name is Eagar, not Eager. [Thanks -- I corrected the post. -- Ardis]

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:34:15 +0000

Thanks for this, Ardis. I spent 8 months of my mission in Eagar, and know many, many Hamblins there. While I don’t remember whether I met Clark or not, there is a faint memory in the back of my mind of hearing this story during my time there.

By: Paul Reeve

Paul Reeve — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:55:23 +0000

Ardis,
I was a mission companion to an Elder Hamblin from Eager, AZ, a descendant of Jacob and no doubt related to Clark. Thanks for sharing this.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:09:28 +0000

Amazing story.

(I’m another Jacob Hamblin descendant (great-great-great). There are lots of us, I assume.)

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:58:38 +0000

Another day I’ll have to tell the story of my mission companion who broke his neck at the Language Training Mission in Laie, Hawaii (in a contest to see who could slide farthest (face first) in one of the perpetual mudpuddles along the side of the playing fields), and whose arrival was delayed only a few weeks (after surgery that included using a bone from his leg for fusing the broken vertebra–or something like that).

For now I’ll just express my amazement (again) at how generations get bunched or spread. My uncle, born the year after Clark Hamblin, was Jacob Hamblin’s great-great grandson. I suppose that’s not miraculous, especially given plural marriages in the 19th century, but it still surprises me.