Who Are We?

My wife joined ancestry.com (and I have taken full advantage of that) and likes to see how far back she can go in her family lines.  While I am also interested in that, I spend a great deal of time working on bringing the lines forward for each of my ancestors, trying to find each of their descendants.  As I once told Sharon, "You want to see who we are descended from.  I want to see what we have descended to."

Ernest Guy Stewart, my grandmother's brother, had one child, Bernie Guy Stewart (b. July 24, 1928, d. September 30, 1982).  He had one daughter, Marcia Kaye Stewart, who (according to my grandmother's records that are probably 30 years old) married Theodore Mont Case, and has two sons, Michael Mont Case and Christopher Brent Case.  I have never met Marcia, who was reportedly born in San Diego.

Thank goodness for Google.  I decided I should report my progress in searching for Will Stewart, just in case Marcia is interested (and I have no idea whether she is).  I tried Googling (Google is now a verb) Marcia Kaye Stewart Case, and I got lots of hits for a lawyer in North Carolina named Marcia Kaye Stewart (who obviously will take your case) but I was pretty sure that was not my second cousin.  I then Googled Marcia Case.  I discovered that Marcia "Showboat" Case is a character in the movie and series "Battlestar Galactica."  Interesting, but not very helpful.

I then decided to Google Theodore Mont Case.  There must only be one of him, because I soon found out that he is the president of Case & Sons Construction, Inc., a contractor in Orange County, California.  Case & Sons has a website, with pictures and biographies of Ted, his sons and vice-presidents of the corporation, Mike and Chris, and the secretary and treasurer of the corporation, Marcia "Kaye" Case.  I took the liberty of using their business e-mail to send a message to Marcia (or maybe, like me, she goes by her middle name, Kaye) introducing myself and telling her what I am doing.  I will see if she will respond.  Here is her photo from the company website.

CORRECTION: Yesterday, I stated this: "One of the links reports that James' and Lovey's son, 'Willie,' fought in the Spanish-American War, never married, and died November 16, 1956 in a V.A. hospital."

The statement was actually (and I quote): "Willie, born 1868 in LA, according to the 1870 LA census. According to Mr. and Mrs. Gordie Dance, he served in the Spanish American War. Never married, died in a Veterans Administration Hospital in Dallas and is buried in Wylie, TX."

Sharon thinks this means he never told his family that he got married and had children.  This, of course, begs the question, why?

Just because I have discovered Will's parents' names and where Will is buried does not mean the mystery has been solved.  Why did he go to Denison, Texas?  Why did he apparently have no contact with his family?  What did he do in the 53 years from the time he abandoned his young family in Roswell to the time he left Wylie, Texas to die alone in a V.A. hospital in Dallas?