Thread:Pluto2/@comment-1272640-20160220032117

A few comments:

-His middle name was Melvin. -The supposed 1870 and 1900 censuses HAVEN'T BEEN FOUND. An anonymous IP added those remarks without sources. Only 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses, a California Death Index entry, and a few obituaries have been located. In addition, no evidence exists to suggest he ever sought a pension - and California did not pay pensions to Confederates anyway! According to obituaries, he returned home in 1864 to find his family "gone", and never saw them again. He also never even arrived in California until 1906, the gold hunting has been proven as he had newspaper clippings of the time. Nothing to suggest a birth in Poland in October 1854 has surfaced AT ALL, and he claimed to nave been born in Temple, Texas. He said his parents were German and English in one census and both English in another, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy accepted his claim. The "debunking" is unsourced and needs to be removed. Three different people have looked for the census using every possible variation on his name, and NO ONE fitting the parameters mentioned turns up. 