So, I finally found out what happened to my paternal grandfather.

[moriah]

6. I'm torn, seriously, but I'm leaning toward leaving things as they are.

I am a firm supporter of the cause of the missing and unidentified. It is TRULY the nation's largest silent mass disaster. Only a quarter of the estimated 40,000 unidentified human remains in the US alone are in the official NamUS database, but NamUS has been responsible for closing nearly half of the number originally in NCIC before the NamUS initiative began.

And the motto of the organization of volunteer forensic artists who do reconstructions is "Everyone Deserves A Name".

If it'd been a tombstone with no name at all... absolutely. That'd been my goal -- if he was out there unclaimed in some morgue, do the right thing by him by getting him in the ground under his real name.

But evidence shows he may have lived as Robert Stuart more than he did as his birth name. If it was his chosen name... and it is A name....

I will probably let it rest unless my great-aunt wants him moved from Texas to the family cemetery. It's really now, in my mind, about her and her wishes. But I have submitted the information to FindAGrave to have at least the web memorial updated to show both for genealogical reasons.