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I have a long story, please take time and read about this puzzle that I'm trying to solve.
On my Dad's side of the family, I started with Dad's parents and sisters, which I have never meet and they never meet me or my brother.
One of my puzzles is this:
My Dad kept in his wallet his SS card and the stub to the card. On the stub he wrote his mother's maiden name: Mary Brown and then he had Carl Hodge and Philadelphia. Something doesn't sound right with this. Why would you write your parent's names and your place of birth?
I went to the SS office and they gave me this information about my Dad's SS number:
Date Issued of the card is 11/1956 in Florida
Dad's name = Frank Carl Hodge
Parent's names are Mary Brown and Carl Hodge (Dad's SS number is 261-60-8971) Dad's DOB 1-25-1928 in Philadelphia, PA. DOD - May 1988 in Charleston, SC (I
knew my Dad all my life.)
I wrote for my Dad's birth certificate, but they had no record of birth for the names I provided.
On my Mom and Dad's marriage certificate I have this:
Dad's parent's names are Bill and Irma Hodge living in Detroit, MI.
Dad's address in 1956 on the marriage certificate is Sumter, SC.
Mom and Dad married in Lincoln, NC on May 17, 1956.
The story my Mom told me was that my dad did something to where his dad was
going to turn my Dad in to the police, so they got into a fight and my Dad's Dad kicked my Dad out of the house. Mom said Dad told her he had gotten into a car wreck in his teens and was in hospital awhile. (I don't know where.) All of this was in his teens.
My Dad was traveling with the fair at the time Mom and Dad met and married. My Dad at one time worked were they took taxes out and that was in Florida in 1956. Dad never worked anywhere else where he had taxes took out. My Dad would either travel with the fair or had night clubs here in Charleston, SC. All my Dad's clubs were in my Mom's name. Dad couldn't or didn't want the drinking license in his name, etc. Dad was good at covering his tracks. I do know one thing when traveling with the fair back then everyone had Alabama tags because you didn't need car insurance. As you see I have nothing to go on without a birth certificate, etc.
Thank You, Linda Hodge Davis
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