Volume 6 , Issue 4

Abandoned - 1939 or '40?...

"I was wondering if you've every heard any stories about a small boy being abandoned in Waynoka, Oklahoma? I now live in Topeka, Kansas and just started doing some Genealogy work. My step-father Jack Beaman is from Waynoka. He was adopted about 1939 or 1940. He was abandoned by his father with lastname Ray when Jack was about 3-years-old. We know they came from California, and stay at an apartment in Waynoka, for about 2-months. One morning little Jack Ray woke-up and his dad was gone. Never heard or saw his father again. The people who owned the apartment had the lastname of Beaman which they gave to Jack at age 13 or 16 when they adopted him thus he became Jack Ray Beaman. Maybe there might be old registers around somewhere? I know at some point Jack went into the airforce, his social security number comes from Kansas. Even his own children don't remember anything. To them that was in the past. I don't know if I told you he was a twin. He also remembered that they (he and his dad) came from California and his mother was a concert piano player. Now... how hard would it be to find a concert piano player who gave birth to twin boys." -- Nancy Eddy (neddy1115@hotmail.com)   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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