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

[David Walters]

If this gentleman was aland surveyor he would have been registered
with the apprpiate bord or agency that regulates the practice of land
surveying. Isuggest that you check in Va and Il. Their records should
be available and would contain valuable bigraphic information.

David Walters

---- Original Message ----
From: Sandykhall at aol.com
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: RE: [Genealib] STUMPED!!!!  Help needed to unravel a pesky
mystery
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:42:42 EST

>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
>>
>>