Pam,
My last message to the list for 2 months. More info below.
I hope that everyone follows your example and keeps on sharing!
Take care,
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project
http://members.cox.net/johnrcarpenter/index.htm
Here is more details on the three in California.
#582 was Arley CARPENTER, d. in Pasadena 5/1/98 at age 89.
#559 was Sally CARPENTER, d. in Temple City, CA in 1998 at age 82
#1741 was Jeanette CARPENTER, d. Ontario, CA 2/11/2003, age 80, b. WA
6/3/22
Social Security Death Index
Name Birth Death Last Residence Last Benefit SSN Issued Tools Order
Record?
ARLEY F CARPENTER 28 Sep 1908 01 May 1998 (P) 91107 (Pasadena, Los
Angeles, CA) (none specified) 234-10-3763 West Virginia SS-5 Letter
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Name Birth Death Last Residence Last Benefit SSN Issued Tools Order
Record?
SALLY H CARPENTER 20 Apr 1911 18 Feb 1998 (V) 91780 (Temple City, Los
Angeles, CA) (none specified) 313-10-0468 Indiana
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Name Birth Death Last Residence Last Benefit SSN Issued Tools Order
Record?
JEANETTE CARPENTER 03 Jun 1922 11 Feb 2003 (V) 91764 (Ontario, San
Bernardino, CA) (none specified) 556-30-6301 California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela Berger" <westwind(a)milwpc.com>
To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:10 AM
Subject: [CARPENTER] CA unclaimed deceased persons --Carpenter
I watched an internet program on
www.rootstelevision.com about a
genealogist who has assisted a coroner's office to find relatives of
unclaimed deceased persons in CA. These people were identified by name
and
sometimes DOB and POB, but no family could be found to notify of the
deaths.
The bodies are eventually cremated and put in unmarked pauper's graves.
The
show refers one to a website
www.unclaimedpersons.com. There are a couple
of thousand of such unclaimed persons just in CA--it's astonishing that
there could be so many. (So sad, especially the young ones and those from
other lands whose people must be wondering what became of them.) The
deaths
may have been natural or not. I do not know if other states have anything
similar. The lists go back to the 1990s it seems. (Too bad it doesn't go
farther back and nationwide. My g-grandmother had a brother who
disappeared
in the early 20th century and was feared to have met a bad end. It is
still
wondered about in the family a hundred years later.)
There are three people with surname Carpenter on that list for California:
#582 was Arley CARPENTER,
d. in Pasadena 5/1/98 at age 89.
#559 was Sally CARPENTER,
d. in Temple City, CA in 1998 at age 82
#1741 was Jeanette
CARPENTER, d. Ontario, CA 2/11/2003, age 80, b. WA 6/3/22
Perhaps someone will recognize a name or be interested in tracking down
one of them or someone else via genealogical methods. There is
information
on the website about which coroner to contact. (They are not necessarily
soliciting for genealogists.) The coroner's office should make any
notifications, as they have all the details, and some cases may be
sensitive. But perhaps someone will be able to provide new leads for a
possible connection. It seems a sad thing for anyone's body to be
unclaimed.
--Pam Berger