FL FL - David Hamilton or Armantrout - Lee Co - 1963

[AlexFromnic]

I can't open the earlier videos, just the last one with Misty the genealogist. My takeaway is David disappeared while in TN. So before we get to FL, how do we know David left home or even the state of TN? Unless I missed it, I don't see Donald mentioning David, yet he 'ran away' after Daniel and was actually older than them both. Perhaps David was considered an adult, on his own, or a lost cause and the focus was on Danny.

I agree someone was arrested with ID naming him as David Hamilton. Was it David or was it another vagrant with David's ID? If it was David, then barring other evidence he may have died in FL transient or went off the grid. This arrest wasn't long after he was last noted in TN, perhaps this vagrant was arrested with an already deceased person's ID. Curious though, if it was David Hamilton it makes sense that unless he was on the lam he'd likely go by David."

As for David Naval, that sounds like an Hispanic name, Na-VAL with "val" rhyming with "wall." Him having SS paperwork is vague, was it stuffed in a drawer with personal belongings or fresh and laying about? Outside of "David" and age range, I don't see a connection. A huge leap would be David changing his name to something remotely phonetically similar so he'd respond to it. that's a little cloak and dagger though.

This could come down to DNA if David was a Doe with a sample, from with the rest of the Armantrout or Berner lines.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. This is half to respond and half to rebump the thread. So we know he left Tennessee. The middle brother Donald who is alive and we saw in the interviews left for the military. When he came back he found out that Danny and David had both left home so yes we know he left Tennessee.

Mostly we know his last location was in Florida he was arrested for vagrancy (homelessness) There are a lot of homeless people in Florida..the weather..its kind of a hub for homeless all over the country. But anyway David last did anything in the 60s and it was being homeless so there is a very high chance he is a John Doe out of Florida that was found some time after 1964.

To me this Is an incredibly interesting case because we have 3 brothers. Only one could escape their circumstance and join the military and the other two end up disappearing and certainly very likely ending up John Does in the US for years. Two brothers becoming John Does in the same family is very rare.