Ciriii57
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I don't know much about this, but your logic does make perfect sense. I am not sure how paychecks would have worked back then but yes, you would think that the whole name would be needed to pay the check in. Even an address etc are not listed...I wonder if it was indeed a clerical error while being entered. I wonder how much information the unclaimed property people would actually share?Just another random thought that just popped in my head, here. Regarding the F Stanberry unclaimed property, why would it only have an initial instead of a name? I don't think I have ever seen a payroll check made out to "J. Smith" or "P. Jones" and I would think a bank might question that when it was being deposited. I could be wrong about that.
But then I remembered he was referred to somewhere as F. Wade Stanberry and wonder if the "F Stanberry" was just a clerical error by the State, and they just didn't enter the middle name?
I guess I am just pondering whether the F Wade reference makes it any more likely that F Stanberry is him.
In one of his missing person ads in the SF Chronicle RC had referred to him as "F. Wade Stanberry" which always struck me as odd unless he was referred to as "Wade". I can't think of another time you would use a person's middle name over their first name? I think you're right, it does make it more likely it is him.