American Murder about 1930?

[MonicaL]

A possible for Donald Steffy on SSDI with the reference to Duquesne in James Jnr's obit:

Birth: 3 Mar 1923
Death Date: 17 Aug 1993
Duquesne, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Possible for this Donald in 1930 in Duquesne - everyone born in PA:

James B Steffy 43, conductor (railroad)
Mable Steffy 41
Edna Steffy 22
J Roy Steffy 21
Claire E Steffy 19
Donald Steffy 7


Foster brother is an odd use of words. Has this a different meaning in the US? Here in the UK would imply a child fostered (not adopted and not a half brother where a parent had remarried and had more children with a new partner). Just not heard the expression of someone being a foster brother before.

Monica

[slc]

Monica

Thanks for that find on Donald Steffy  I posted his info from the obit on the Rootsweb Steffy surname board to see if anyone sees it and replys.

Foster child is the same thing here... a child taken in by a family and they raise the child.  So I wonder when Letitia died both James and Dorothy were taken in by the State and put in foster care or else this

James's father James worked for the railroad as a breakman on a train I would imagine and this James B Steffy is a conductor on the railroad... I wonder if James Stuffy knew James sr and took his kids in when Letty died?  They could have grown up togeather and James and Donalds friendship was like brothers maybe? 

Well it does give me something to work on finding Donalds obit.  Duquesene Pa is part of Pittsburgh Pa like a suburb of the city..there are lots of little places like that all around Pittsburgh... as Pittsburgh grew it incorporated the little towns into it however they retained their origional names...

Will look to see if Donalds obit is online or where I go to get it.

Thanks for the find

Sharon

[MonicaL]

Lost am I with the 20th C US databases   But could this help with Dorothy Green Gatto perhaps:

Dorothy A Gatto
Birth Date:    11 Apr 1919 [11 Apr 1921]

Address: New Bern Twrs 2m, New Bern, NC, 28560
[PO Box 2593, Granite Shls, TX, 78654-2678 (1995)]
[100 Windwood Dr Apt 16, Kingsland, TX, 78639-9702 (1995)]

source: U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1

Which then fits with one of the Dorothy's you found on SSDI:

Name: Dorothy A. Gatto
SSN:  
Last Residence: 78639  Kingsland, Llano, Texas
Born: 11 Apr 1919
Died: 2 Aug 2006
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951

It's the New Bern reference on the first set of details that caught my eye, connecting back to James Jnr's obit.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Re the foster brother ref. You are right, I may be reading it the wrong way round that the Greens took in Donald Steffy but could well be that the Steffys took in the two Green children in the event that something had happened to Leticia...which is what we are trying to determine!

[Trees]

Just found all this news as I was checking the mail to shut down for the night  unfortunately I have an early start in the morning can't wait to get five mins to look through it all many thanks both for your hard work
Trees

[slc]

well the computer room looks like a toronato hit it.... I went looking in my plastic boxes and found the Holden box.... found my G-aunt Irene's stuff and in it was her address pages... on the one page is the following

Dorothy A Gatto
2-M-New Bern Towers
New Bern NC 28560

down a few names is this

Mrs and Mrs James Green
2703 Trent Road
New Bern NC 28562

Same address as in the obit...   I haven't looked at that suff in years... forgot about it till I was outside replanting my little lemon tree that the dogs dug up abit ago .... [its outside the yard now]

So Dorothy A Gatto would be the one.    Kingsland Texas is about 2-3 hrs away from me...

Off to that rootsweb message board to see what they can tell me about getting her obit.

Thanks again for the new info on Dorothy...

Looks like Lettie is on the move again...lets hope she gets to where she is going this time...

Sharon

[MonicaL]

GAunt Irene's address book is coming in handy! That's great to be able to confirm 

No substance to this as yet but there are a couple of telephone directory entries as follows:

Gatto Peter (Dorothy) lab. h803 Soles - shown in the 1940 and 1941 directory for     Polk's Mckeesport (allegheny County, Pa.)

Would this mean that Dorothy as show in brackets was wife's name do you think?

[slc]

Yes that would be Peter wife [Dorothy]  If the husband is dead then it has the wifes name and widow of so and so in them at least the older ones do.   I wonder if that was her husbands name?  I am trying to find out where to get an obit for her in Texas... Texas I found out wants 20 dollars for a death certificate.... thats alot for one.

I found out where to get the obit for Donald  I need to go to

McKeesport Heritage Center http://www.mckeesportheritage.org/   They have the McKeesport Daily News from it's start

I wonder if they would have anything on Letitia  I will ask about her also...   

 

[MonicaL]

Fingers crossed on all - lots of avenues there.

Off to bed now - way past bewitching hour here 

Monica