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Daniel Wilber Glassford - Identified!

7/31/2018

Male, White / Caucasian
Date Found January 13, 1988
Location Found North Miami, Florida
Estimated Age Range 60-70 Years

Circumstance Notes:
A wallet was found on him with the name Daniel Wilber Glassford on a SS card 296-24-2736 military papers were found as well. DOB 10/24/1927.

His identification could not be confirmed because military info. was unable to be verified due to a fire at the warehouse which burned military records.

Circumstances of Recovery: Found by construction employees inside one of the sewer pipes on newspapers that he had used for a bed.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/6080/details

The National Archives online appears to have his service information available now.

Daniel Wilbur Glassford Ohio WW2 veteran

Ancestry has census info that puts him in Ohio in 1940.

Thank you to the Local History & Genealogy Center of Warren-Trumbull County Public Library for looking at this information and sending me what they found for Daniel Wilber Glassford.
They found: the city directory that lists him as being in the Army, his father's obituary that lists him as being in Miami Florida (and a sister in Indiana), and his high school yearbook photo.

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Unidentified Person Colorado / Independence Pass John Doe

7/30/2018

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Male, White / Caucasian
Date Found June 19, 1970
Location Found Colorado
Estimated Age Range 18-30 Years

Newspaper stated Tattered Sweatshirt, Gray Trousers, Three Pairs of Socks and Tennis or Hiking Shoes (Could possibly be Jungle Boots?) with an unworn sock over the left shoe. Sheriff's report states he was wearing a pair of light colored wash and wear pants, a sweat shirt and a pair of black loafers along with having seven dollars and a razor in his pocket.

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/10738/details

Can this John Doe be identified?
Marcia Martinek, Herald Editor | Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3:43 pm

This is the grave marker at Evergreen Cemetery that marks the final resting place of an unidentified man whose body was discovered on Independence Pass in 1970. Although the body currently is at Bailey-Kent Funeral Home in Leadville, it will soon be returned to this grave.

Two young men walking east from the summit of Independence Pass on June 19, 1970, discovered the decomposed body of a white male lying in a ditch on the north side of the road about 2 miles from the top of the pass. It was partially covered with rocks that had fallen from the slope above.

There was no identification on the body, and to this day, the Independence Pass John Doe remains nameless. Yet it is more likely now than ever before that his family might be found, thanks to DNA.

Read more of this article: http://www.leadvilleherald.com/free_content/article_4259a4f6-f140-11e5-aca1-d3c184426a84.html

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