Story goes that my grandfather, Joel Bales shot a man in Illinois, hence the relocation of him and my grandmother, Jane Broome to Wilder, Idaho. My Grandmother and her daughter would become very upset at anyone trying to look into relatives/geneology. I have the only pic of my gfather but it isn't a clear visual picture. We don't know anything except J Bales was in Illinois and I have his watch fob with his Illinois lodge on it. Is it connected to your family at all?