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Quote from: floppyslater on Thursday 16 March 17 11:52 GMT (UK)

I'm still trying to track down her first daughter Blanche Kalkoszinski (born 1918 in Philadelphia).  She appears in the 1920 US Census but seems to vanish.  I have not located a death record so I am assuming that she may have been missed or changed her name.

She changed her name.  In the links posted to Blanche's obit, the obit mentions 3 daughters. The 2 you mentioned from the 1920 census and a 3rd daughter Eleanor Fedele. Eleanor & Blanche are the same.

SSDI: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JY7Z-BJH

Obit snippets April 19/20 : http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jpl/

Daily News OCR text obit at bottom: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/184549602/

Inquirer OCR text obit at bottom: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/174879497/

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Marriage 1938

License Number    687428: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJ56-ZW5

License Number    687428:  https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JV9S-MXX

1940 census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQXW-CNX


Henry F. Fedele: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135852600

Eleanor S. Fedele:  https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135852634

Excellent sleuthing, RJ137. I noticed daughter "Elenor" in the 1930 U.S. census but wasn't sure what to make of her. So I left her out.

John 

Hi all,

Unless you are related to the deceased, it may be difficult for you to get a death certificate. But here's some help that may get you closer to finding out.

First, don't bother with the National Personnel Records Center (Military Personnel Records). There was a fire there in 1973, and 80% of the records were destroyed. Also, forget the U.S. Department of Defense. They do only modern wars there.... Veterans Affairs is the U.S. government agency that deals with those who served (past tense) in the military or navy.

I found a link on the U.S. National Archives site (https://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes/3769.htm) that took me to the Utah State Archives (Division of Archive Services, technically). There I found that death certificates for American casualties overseas in World War II were issued by a now-defunct U.S. agency, the Federal Security Agency. That agency had more to do with social welfare than national security. It "oversaw food and drug safety as well as education funding and the administration of public health programs and the Social Security old-age pension plan," according to Wikipedia.

The Utah website says this: "Even though these certificates were filed long after the date of death, it was necessary by law to obtain a death certificate before burial. They were issued by the Federal Security Agency to be filed at Utah's Bureau of Vital Statistics and they were accompanied by a federal health permit number which allowed shipment and burial in the United States."

Unfortunately, this information doesn't clarify the situation. I think it was the state of Utah that required a death certificate, because death and burial come under the purview of the individual U.S. states. So perhaps a death certificate was sent to Indiana for Lt. Heilman's burial by the Federal Security Agency. No guarantee, though. Also, and unfortunately, Indiana requires proof of relationship and proof of identity to obtain a death certificate (see this link: https://vitalrecords.egov.com/CDC.VitalRecordsMVC.Web/Wizard/IN/Pricing/PricingInformation).

So this information is only informational (which is why it is called information). Governmental bureaucracies or agencies never clarify anything! But you might e-mail Kfrogge@isdh.IN.gov at the Indiana State Department of Health. "K" in the email address stands for Kathleen. Last name begins after that letter. She is a program coordinator or some such title--one of the few people in the directory who wasn't a clerical assistant or data analyst.

A good place to go might be James Heilman's Find a Grave entry, where you can e-mail the gentleman who created the entry on Find a Grave. He lives in Indiana, so he'll probably be able to help you with your search. (The person who currently maintains the entry lives in the state of Maryland--not close at all to Indiana). Be careful not to confuse these gentlemen. (Both are named John.)

James Heilman's funeral, according to the obits you linked to on Dropbox, was held at St. Patrick's Church in Kokomo, Indiana, with his brother Thomas officiating. Thomas Heilman is mentioned on the church's website in a list of priest's born in that parish, so the church might have some biographical info on him and might possibly be able to tell you if a funral home was involved in the funeral. The address for the church is 1204 North Armstrong, Kokomo, IN 46901. No e-mail address, unfortunately.

If you were to get a funeral home's name, a death certificate might be in the records there.

Finally, just found this in a search: a link to what may be his brother Daniel's picture (6 rows down, third from left) in his high school yearbook (at Kokomo High School, 1943: http://www.howardcountymemory.net/item.aspx?details=9833.

Heilman is fairly common name in the U.S. Midwest, so a search by surname only might not be fruitful.

Regards,
John 

I'm also researching Abraham Town and his wife Nancy Benn.  Their daughter, Selina Mabel, was my wife's great-grandmother.
I'm trying to sort out Abraham's parents, Jonathan and (I think) Betty.
Has anyone else managed to piece together their ancestry?

Hi Kenman: Sorry for not responding earlier, but I just saw this today. Extrapolating from Reply #2 to this thread: Abraham Town might be a nephew of Hannah Town Slater, my great-great-grandmother. As I note, she seems to have a brother Jonathan Town, born 1792, who fits in with the Towns that I am dealing with.

On the Mount Zion chapel burials database, there is an burial entry for Abraham Town born 1810/11 and living on Bradshaw Lane, where my Slater ancestors lived, and his wife Nancy, born about 1811.

Here is a link to the burial of Abraham and Nancy Town at Mount Zion, with a transcription of the MI: http://mountzionhalifax.free.fr/FullSearch.php?GRAVE,Hm12.

Here is a link to the burial of what may be five of their children at Mount Zion:
http://mountzionhalifax.free.fr/FullSearch.php?GRAVE,Is27. Note that in the transcription of this MI, the name is Abram, rather than Abraham.

I've also noticed that certain names--such as James and Jonathan--tend to be repeated in successive generations. The James Slater in the title of this thread is, I think, named for his grandfather, James Town. In the index to the 1841 census, there are three Jonathan Towns born Halifax, which is where Abraham and Nancy Town lived.

Here is a link to the Jonathans in the 1841 census index on FamilySearch:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AJonathan~%20%2Bsurname%3ATown~%20%2Bbirth_place%3A%22Yorkshire%2C%20England%22~&collection_id=1493745.

Here is a link to Abraham and Nancy Town in Halifax in the 1841 census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQPS-6VZ.

If I find anything further, I'll post it here.

Regards,
John 
 

I appreciate it's been a while since you posted this, but it came up during my googling for answers re my own conundrum.

Did you ever find your Slaters in 1861?

I have two households of Town(e)'s and one of Binns/Benns missing for the same census. Like your Slaters they all lived on Bradshaw Lane in 1851 and 1871 but are nowhere to be found in 1861. I have traced one of them on tax records up to 1858 in Bradshaw Lane.
 
My current theory, as I expand sideways along this particular family tree and discover yet more missing individuals on that road, for that census, is that Bradshaw Lane either wasn't covered by an enumerator for some reason in 1861 or those pages haven't survived. I've checked census records both at FindMyPast and Ancestry, numerous spellings of names and surnames and page by page of the census all with no luck.

Hi CeliaRM: Welcome to Rootschat. And thanks for your reply here.

I discovered that the 1861 census pages for Bradshaw Lane were damaged or missing. How much of Ovenden was missing, I can't remember. I've had that happen a few times with other census searches I've done, which means I'd have to duplicate my search for the Slaters in Ovenden in 1861 to be able to tell you what the exact reason was. But I think my information came from a description attached to the census returns for Ovenden. As you say, it's been a while.

But on a positive note: James Slater, head of the household that I was searching, was the son of John Slater (Slaytor in one census) and Hannah Town, born about 1803. John Slater and Hannah Town married  in 1822.

Hannah Town Slater's parents seem to have been James and Betty Towns. Her siblings may have included JONATHAN TOWN born/christened 15 JAN 1792, THOMAS TOWN 05 DEC 1795, JAMES TOWN 16 APR 1805, MARY TOWN  born 15 MAR 1808, and BETTY TOWN  18 APR 1813.

The children were christened at the Zion Methodist New Connexion church, which was/is a mile or so north of the spot on Bradshaw Lane where these folks lived.

I've seen the Binns name on the census, too. In fact, a relative of James Slater's wife, Susey (nee Dobson), was named Binns Dobson.

Let me know if any of this looks familiar.

Regards,
John 

Jan Ann..  I am Charles Cotton's grandson. Can I be of any help?

Hi Kashteen: Welcome to Rootschat. Since you have posted three times here, you can now send a personal message to Jan Ann--if you haven't already received one from her. Just scroll up to her post at the top of this page and click on the third icon to the right at the bottom of info below her name. The Personal Message icon looks like a document page.

After reading through this thread again, I noticed that your grandfather was a steelworker at Carnegie Steel, so my guess in my first post on p. 1 that he worked at Rankin, Braddock, or Homestead was correct. Carnegie Steel, which was started by Andrew Carnegie, became U.S. Steel in 1907 or so.

Regards,
John