[Genealib] STUMPED!!!! Help needed to unravel a pesky mystery

Sandykhall at aol.com Sandykhall at aol.com
Mon Dec 11 15:42:42 EST 2006


Dear Friends,
 
I am stumped! Drew Smith said it was okay to run this, and see if anyone  can 
help me please.
 
>   Aloha and greetings from Honolulu.
>
>  I  am writing to see if I may have your permission to run a "Stumped" on
>  the genealib. I have tried the Census, National Military Records in St
>  Louis, Virginia Beach Public Library, Geneology.com, cemeteries and
>  newspapers in Hawaii and I've drawn a blank.
>
>  The paper  trail for Kenneth Slade Winter fizzles out w/his World War  1
> registration card of June 5 1917. At that time, he was a surveyor  living
> in Virginia Beach. He had lived in Honolulu from his DOB  1/29/1889, and
> he left "for Chicago" sometime in the summer of 1911. He  worked for the
> Government at the Cape Henry Fortifications (later called  Camp Story) in
> Virginia. He was single and had no dependents.  He  loved water sports and 
was at one time a swimming instructor.
 
He was apparently deceased by 1936, because he is not mentioned in his  
mother's (Katherine Mossman Winter) obituary.
>
>  Any help is  greatly appreciated. Mahalo nui loa.
>
>  Season's  greetings,
>
>  Sandra Kimberley Hall
>  Honolulu  Hawaii
>
>
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