Hi Darrell, You must think me a bum for not answering your nice note. I'm not, but my computer is. It died taking all my stuff with it. I will forward your nice note to my cousin, Harley. He lives in KC, and these twins were his sisters. Thanks for the support, sorry about the delay Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell O'Day" <aesellers@yahoo.com> To: <GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:50 PM Subject: Re: Missing Twin Girls in KC, Born Aug 28, 1938 > Peggy, > > That's an amazing story, and certainly a good reason to go into > genealogy. I was attracted to your story because I too was born in > Kansas City in August, 1938. > > I don't know if I can be of any help to you. I wish you luck in your > search. I went into genealogy to try to learn about mysteries in my > family, and sometime we DO reach a dead end, but I'm still searching. > Keep up the search. > > Darrell in Minnesota > > > --- Thompson <ronpegt@tir.com> wrote: > > Hi Listers, Here is my family Mystery. > > The story is written in the words of the man who would be there > > brother. > > Suspensions are, they were stolen at birth? No proof, just > > suspensions. The > > place of Birth was Kansas City. > > Their story... > > First, on the Twin Girls. According to the hospital, the girls died > > shortly after birth. No names were assigned to them - I will dig out > > a > > photograph of the head stone and send it to you later. It reads > > 'Infant > > Twins Ladd'. Mom thought they may have been deformed and died as a > > result. When the 'bodies' were sent to the funeral home, Dad went > > over > > to see them and they refused, saying it was a sealed casket service. > > Years later, I went by the cemetery to visit with them, as I had been > > in > > the habit of doing, and the cemetery was in the process of pulling up > > all of the markers in the area and bringing in loads of fill dirt to > > fill the low area where a dozen or so graves were located. I called > > Mom > > and told her what was going on, so she and Dad made a trip out to the > > cemetery to check my story out. The foreman on the job saw Mom > > looking > > around and went over and asked if he could help her. She told him she > > was looking for the 'Infant Twins Ladd'. He asked Mom if he could ask > > her a personal question about the graves as to why, when they opened > > the > > caskets to verify the person buried, in the 'Twins' casket there were > > no > > bodies, no bones, no nothing - the casket was buried EMPTY. Mom had > > the > > family lawyer check the hospital - and there was NO record of Mom > > being > > in the hospital and giving birth to the Twins. He checked the funeral > > home and they had NO record of a service or a sale for the Twins. A > > lot > > of suspicion has built up over time as to what really happened to > > them. > > With the advent of DNA many things are now possible and this is why I > > got into genealogy. Mom's thought was that they were involved in a > > clandestine sale of babies and that someone obtained them unknown to > > us. > > I expect my research to meet a dead end and the mystery will never be > > solved. > > If you have any clues to these missing twins please contact me. > > Peggy Holloway Thompson > > ronpegt@tir.com > > > > > > ==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > > Please consider becoming a Rootsweb contributor. > > > > ============================== > > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > http://photos.yahoo.com > > > ==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > Please consider becoming a Rootsweb contributor. > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >