Awww...Peanuts

[STS Lincolnite]

(07-10-2014 06:32 PM)Rsmyth Wrote:  Nicknames are worse than maiden names when tracking people. "Peanut" may not have been fond of the name associates had bestowed on him and when (if) he moved discarded the tag.

I agree completely. Especially if he was one of the people that wanted to escape his involvement in the events of that dark day there is no way he would want to continue to go by Peanut John or John Peanuts or a similar nickname. Definitely makes him more difficult to track.

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(07-11-2014 04:11 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(07-10-2014 09:44 AM)L Verge Wrote:  This guy has plagued historians for 150 years. It's time that we clearly identify him.

(07-10-2014 02:51 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote:  Cliff posited in a previous post that Peanuts may have relocated to Baltimore. It makes me curious as to the possiblity that he worked at John Ford's Baltimore Theatre after the assassination.

From what I can tell here are the possibilities:

(1) Cliff posited in a previous post that Peanuts may have relocated to Baltimore
(2) the son of Dr. Joseph Borrows eliminated by Susan's research
(3) an unnamed fellow who told fireman Elmer Stein he was Peanut John (around May 1930)
(4) Nathan Simms
(5) "Coughdrop Joey" Ratto

I believe Ed Steers and others have eliminated numbers 3, 4, and 5. Cliff, I think you are the best hope for finding this boy!

Very well summarized Roger! I agree with Laurie, it is long past time this young man was found so we can learn the rest of his life story. Hope Cliff is able to continue along his line of research with success.