More notes on Mary 19 from the article. She would have been about 52 when found in 1954, she claimed to be born April 12 1902 in Cicero, Il, however no records could be found.
"Mary's file also mentions the names Mayo and Majewski; it doesn't say why. Chism said that Mary often mentioned a relative she supposedly had in Cicero named Anna Rusck - a name not listed in the Cicero phone directory.
Add those names to the two mentioned earlier, and that makes five possible, original surnames for the woman: Mae, May, Mayo, Majewski and Rusck.
People with some of those names aren't listed in the Cicero phone directory; those that are know nothing about a woman missing since 1954.
State law didn't require parents to file birth certificates until 1916, though some did. But no birth certificates exist at the Cook County Clerk's Office for anyone with those five surnames born or
around April 12, 1902.
Mary told nursing-home employees she had worked at a Catholic school. But the Chicago Archdiocese has no record of teachers with those five last names. Neither do the Cicero schools. The state Board of Education has no teacher records back that far.
Mary's file stated the woman attended two years of high school at an unspecified location. But public or parochial school records of a student with those five surnames either don't exist or aren't available from the years around 1916, when Mary could have been a freshman."
Some more info:
"One clerk got intrigued with this case, dug a little deeper and found a birth certificate from April 12, 1902.
It was for a white girl, as was Mary Doe 19. But she was born in Chicago, and her surname was different from the five previously mentioned: France.
Perhaps her mother's married name was France. Perhaps she became divorced or widowed, but later wed a man whose last name was Luke. And one day years later, perhaps the frail mind of an amnesiac woman flickered with the scant memory that her mother's name was
France and her father's name was Luke.
The birth certificate says the baby's full name was Martha Lucile France, the second child of Eiliza France, 24, whose obscured maiden name looks like it could be McGee or something like that. She was born in an unspecified town in Canada.
The father was Walker France, a 26-year-old laborer born in Valparaiso, Ind. The couple lived at 5146 S. Trumbull Ave. in Chicago, located near Midway Airport.
However, no one named France is now listed in the Valparaiso phone directory, and no one with that name in Chicago or Cicero knows anything about a woman who disappeared decades ago. School and teaching records in Cicero and Chicago for Martha France are
either untraceable or nonexistent.
No Social Security
Obviously, the evidence isn't there to suggest Martha Lucile France and Mary Doe 19 were one and the same. But there is one final, curious note.
Social Security has no record of anyone named Martha Lucile France born April 12, 1902. The agency started giving out numbers in the early 1920s, which means she simply might have never needed one. She might have never worked, and she could have used her husband's number to collect any governmental benefits.
A plausible scenario. But maybe one day, for reasons unknown, she appeared confused in Park Ridge, and spent the last 37 years of her life under state care. Only in 1967 did she finally get Social Security No. 319-46-0340 and a new name."