I have ruled out so many Stephen/Steven's. I thought I would try searching just Steve and this was a new find. I did find a marriage license, but it is only the index and birth year is 2 years off with a middle initial of A. However, at this point I don't know that anything can be definitively ruled out. I dug through military archives on 3fold the past few nights and I can't find anything. The AWOL database only goes up to the early to mid-1970s.
Those names don't have any meaning for me, sorry. It is dragging out but I can't give up. I did request military records again. After things calm down from the holidays I plan on emailing the detective again. I do think I should put out there, "What Happened to Stephen?
I really don't know what to tell you. There is usually some indication as to what happened. It is not very often (that I have seen) where there is literally no clue. Not even knowing when he went "missing", from where, under what circumstances... It is hard to even know where to look. I am more than happy to try and put something together. It wouldn't be much with the information you have now. Although, if you wanted to, you could use this as a opportunity to look for answers by saying someone contacted you wanting to do research to try and solve the case.
I am ready for answers. I don't believe any answer I receive will shock me. I will continue to dig and I'll be speaking with the detective soon. Thank you for everything, I truly appreciate everyone's concern and hard work.
There were biological and step siblings discussed above in the thread. You may be seeing my research tree (although I thought it was private).
Maybe when you talk to the detective you can gain some insight on the best direction to dig.
The high school probably didn't record SSNs back then. I went to high school with several people who never got SSNs until they graduated and were starting work and this is some time after this missing man would have been in school.
it was just something they mentioned they were going to do in the beginning of the search so i was curious if it had led anywhere!
Idk if it was honorable or dishonorable. The February date came from the first detective I was communicating with. The only location that I have is from his brother which was San Onofre California.
I'm really not sure how the detective came up with anything. They have told me that they ran his fingerprints with no hit. The school wasn't able to give me anything. I did reach out to them. I'm really not 100% positive how their discharge works. I also don't understand why they would wait so long to discharge him out.
Mary Jane had 5 children, 3 with Tommy. Kathy was one of them and did pass away in 2017. They other children are still living. Her 2 other children father was
Mary Jane had 5 kids. 3 with Tommy and 2 with Mr Clark,who is deceased.
That is why I was asking the type. If it was honorable, then he was alive at least until 1983. The only proof that he left the military prior to that are confirmed stories. A discharge means they 1-discharged him honorably by his choice, 2-dishonorably while in their custody, or 3- dishonorably related to awol status. I am not positive off the top of my head, but I think I read it is over 10 yrs before awol discharge.
While I would love to think this was possible, I looked at the tree you referenced and I do not believe so. This person only has a single source for Tommy (Steve's father), the 1940 census. The remainder of the family information was copied from another Ancestry tree. It is very disappointing, but family trees have become almost unreliable (in my opinion) as far as research tools because so many people blindly click on a leaf and think it is always going to be accurate. Without verifying the data you are adding, you are not only introducing bad data to your tree...but also providing that information publicly for others to copy. The top hit in family trees for Tommy is a tree that lists him as being born in North Carolina. The source for this is a prison record for Tommy out of WA. If you look at the record, while the names match, the ages don't. Further, Tommy's parents were in OK and surrounding areas both before and after his birth, so it is unlikely that he would be born in NC, and all his siblings and parents only recorded in OK and MO. (Sorry for over explaining...I turn into a genealogist after midnight when I run out of shoe prints to search).
This is very true. I was trying to find one or my great grandparents and I found a hint. I was about to add her but when I asked my parents it was a completely different woman.
