Steve,
I have sent you some private emails, so look for those in your Spam filter!
I'm from Union City myself, and I've contacted several people still living there.
Yes, Thatcher lived there. My niece remembered a man named "Thatch" who worked
at an ice cream shop called "The House of Flavors". I was able to find the
former owner and talk with her. It's the right man! She moved away and owned the store
at a distance, so she said she really didn't know much about him. I mentioned the wife
that he was buried with, but she said he was with someone else when he worked at the shop.
Now I have a lead on a relative of that woman, so we're still not dead in the water.
I'll call him tonight and see what I can learn.
Hang in there! Hope someone else knows more.
Jennifer Rice