This is the fun thing about retirement. Having the time to finally delve into Items of interest and passing fancy from years past.
I remembered reading about this incident back when it hit the local news in 1991. Now that I volunteer for the local historical society (Deschutes County, Oregon, Historical Society) I have time to do more research in our records and, in the case of this mystery, write a couple of articles about it for our newsletter. For your amusement (or as an antidote for your insomnia) I offer you the attached PDF.
I tried to post the text and photos as a regular post, but I had too many photos so the site wouldn??t allow them all.
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Also - Since this is the internet, I have used abbreviated aliases for the folks I interviewed.
Well done.?ÿ Thanks.
I enjoyed that, thanks.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Mike,?ÿ
Possibly ?ÿRoland Allmon, Eng 4840????ÿ 🙂 Jp
@jp7191 - he was a man of mystery and intrigue, so maybe so
Very interesting.
One of my wife's direct ancestors had what we would now label as early onset Alzheimer's.?ÿ His family had gathered to celebrate his birthday.?ÿ Sometime amidst all the laughing, eating and storytelling, he apparently slipped out a door and disappeared into the nearby mountains around Gunnison, Colorado.?ÿ Over a year later, a hunter reported finding remains and some scraps of clothing a few miles from where the ranch house was located.?ÿ The clothing matched what he was wearing the day he disappeared.
DB Cooper!!!
Just read the article.?ÿ It was an interesting read.?ÿ Thanks for sharing.
Fascinating!! Thanks for sharing!
@holy-cow yes the little known case where DB Cooper??s Great Grandfather hijacked a stage coach then disappeared in the PNW!
One of the ancestors of a local family disappeared one day.?ÿ He went out to work in the fields and never came home for supper.?ÿ His wife and several young children had to make do without him.?ÿ This was about 120 years ago.
Roughly 25 years ago someone with the same surname in British Columbia discovered the truth.?ÿ He had ended up somewhere in Canada.?ÿ Married a young woman and started family number two.?ÿ Never looked back.?ÿ A group of that family traveled here and spent a day or two getting to know their half-family.
Wow, that must have been a wild one for the Canadians to unravel!
Much easier to do today compared to then.?ÿ Which reminds me.?ÿ The US Census from 1950?ÿ should be released soon to the public to find online.?ÿ When I first started doing genealogy as a hobby, the 1910 Census was the latest available.?ÿ I had to go to a local library and request them to make a request to the Census Bureau for microfilm reels of the exact location and decade I was wanting to research.?ÿ Would stop by a week later to see if they had arrived.?ÿ Then put them into their microfilm readers to scroll for hours on end.?ÿ When I was done, the library would ship them back and order different reels for me.
