My grandfather was Frank Sullivan who dissapeared.?

Question:Frank Sullivan was married to Mabel Kennedy. His father was Leo Sullivan, his mother was Ellen Kay. He had about 15 siblings (lots of twins). Frank was a deep sea diver. He was one of the divers at the Eastland Disaster in Chicago in 1915. He and Mabel separated. He took a job in New York and was stabbed for his pay as the story goes. His parents and siblings never knew what happened to him. He was believed to be killed around 1934 or so. Any help finding out anything about Frank would be appreciated! The family would love to know where he is burried. He was a hero.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Frank Sullivan was married to Mabel Kennedy. His father was Leo Sullivan, his mother was Ellen Kay. He had about 15 siblings (lots of twins). Frank was a deep sea diver. He was one of the divers at the Eastland Disaster in Chicago in 1915. He and Mabel separated. He took a job in New York and was stabbed for his pay as the story goes. His parents and siblings never knew what happened to him. He was believed to be killed around 1934 or so. Any help finding out anything about Frank would be appreciated! The family would love to know where he is burried. He was a hero.

Without a birth year it's difficult to be certain we're looking at the right Frank Sullivan. TP is right about college libraries. Also check with your local public library. Many subscribe to newspaper services that you can access online from home. That's how I found this article which is interesting -- but absolutely not proof that this is your Frank.

New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Sep 11, 1932. pg. 18, 1 pgs

BOAT EXPLOSION TOLL NOW 41 DEAD, 63 HURT; Three More Bodies Taken From River -- New Hospital Death -- Union Lists 23 Missing.
BRONX GRAND JURY TO ACT Captain, a Deckhand and Two Former Firemen on Craft Held as Material Witnesses.
WRECKAGE IS HAULED UP Part of Boiler and Big Section of Hull Recovered -- Federal Quest Shows No Defects So Far.

With the captain, a former deckhand and two former firemen of the destroyed craft held as material witnesses, Bronx authorities decided yesterday to hold a grand jury investigation, beginning Tuesday, of the explosion that wrecked the steamer Observation. [snip]

The fourth new victim, Frank Sullivan of 501 East 138th Street, died at Lincoln Hospital, and thus reduced the list of injured to sixty-three for the previously reported total of sixty-four. [snip]

google it up and see the look him up at cementry s that's what i did when i father died of beer poisioning, and i am glad because he was a bithc abusing my mom and **** like that

Have you tried any on line ancestor sites?
Also try here. It's called "Find _a_Grave"(really!)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...
Good luck!

Familysearch.org
Hope this helps!

I would like to help you, genealogy is a hobby of mine and I pay a lot of money for membership to ancestry.com for access to census reports and other documents. Can you tell me anyone's birth years and states they were born in? Middle names of Frank or Leo? Do you think your grandfather died in New York?

curley the cat

This is a long shot and more work than most teens want to do, but . . .

Many college libraries have copies of the NY Times on microfilm. I live in Stanislaus County, California. Our junior college library does, and our one-horse college, Turlock State, does too.

Most college libraries let non-students read their books and microfilm on the premises. There is a nominal charge for making a Xerox copy of the microfilm, and you can't take it out of the room, but you can read it there.

The libraries that have the NY Times on microfilm usually have an index to it.

So - call the college libraries in your area. Ask if they have the NY Times on microfilm, if they will let you look at it and if they have the index. If "Yes" to all three, go down, look him up and see if the Times wrote about him.

quincy the cat