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

[Karen Stanley]

According to his draft card, Kenneth Winter was employed by the U.S. Government.  You can send an inquiry to the National Archives asking where records of his employment can be found.  Be sure to tell them when, where, and what job he was working at.  It's possible that there will be a file on him at the federal personnel records center in St. Louis (unless it got destroyed in the fire that did away with so many military records), but there may also be records with the branch of the government who employed him.
   
  Interesting note:  I see from the census that his family was classed as race=CH.  Ancestry interpreted this as "Chinese" in the 1910 index and "Caucasian Hawaiian" in the 1920 index.  His father was born in Illinois, and his mother's father was born in England, so I'm guessing that the latter interpretation is the correct one.  Yet another reason to be wary of online indexes!
   
  Happy holidays,
   
  Karen Stanley
  Houston, TX

Sandykhall at aol.com wrote:
      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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