The Discharge Paper in the Culvert That Erased a Family's Map
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The Discharge Paper in the Culvert That Erased a Family's Map
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A damp Army separation document found in a drainage culvert named Crestline, Missouri as Harold Eugene Pruitt’s home of record - a town no one in his family had ever heard of. The paper survived 73 years in a waterproof sleeve and set off a chain of documents, a DNA match, and a diner meeting that unraveled what everyone thought they knew; how did a postal worker buried in Indiana end up tied to a Missouri town no one remembers?
In this episode, we follow the discovery of the July 14, 1946 discharge paper and the small clues that turn into a family mystery, tracing what the document, a deathbed instruction, and a DNA match reveal about Harold’s life before Indiana and the question that reorders one family’s history.
Person: Harold Eugene Pruitt
Date: July 14, 1946
Location: Dunbar Creek, Indiana
Age: Cynthia Williams 44 in summer 2019
Event: Dog Pepper found the document on July 9, 2019
- The discharge paper was found on July 9, 2019 in a drainage culvert by a dog named Pepper.
- The document is a United States Army separation dated July 14, 1946 and was kept in a waterproof sleeve.
- The HOME OF RECORD field on the discharge lists Crestline, Missouri, a town unknown to the family.
- Cynthia Williams uploaded her DNA profile to a commercial genealogy database in 2016 and had two confirmed second cousins.
- Beverly Cox called Cynthia on July 11, 2019 after seeing the discharge paper and noting the Crestline entry.
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