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

[Dave Fiske]

Hi,

I found this article in newspaperarchive.com.

Not sure if it's the same person, but there
are a couple of possible tie-ins: construction
work and Chicago relatives. The date is prior 
to the date of the draft record, though, so not
sure.

New Castle (PA) News
Nov 24, 1916, p. 7

"Mother Seeks Sopn, Kenneth S. Winter

Kenneth S. Winter, an employe [sic] of the 
Stone & Webster Construction company, has been
missing since October 25th, according to a
letter received from relatives in Chicago.
The young man was last seen in New Castle
on Sunday night, October 29. Since then no
word of him has been received. His mother
is very much worried over his mysterious
disapperance."

David Fiske
dfiskehiker at yahoo.com

--- 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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