My grandfather Richard Edward Platt's obituary said he was born in Youngstown, Ohio. Every document I can find says the same thing ranging from his retirement article to his death certificate. Nothing documents his birth though and Youngstown may not be right.
Once, my Aunt said her father was born in Meadville. Meadville seems more likely. His father ran the amusement park in Youngstown in 1914, but in the winter months they lived in Meadville at Grace Smith Platt's parents home.
So, which is it? Youngstown or Meadville? Ohio or Pennsylvania? The answer is elusive.
The Youngstown City Health department has no record.
The Ohio Birth Index has 386 people born in Ohio on March 7, 1914 but not one among them with a name even remotely resembling the name Richard Platt.
The Meadville answer has nothing to back it up either though.
Pennsylvania reports no record of his birth by that name or on that date either. And the index can't be viewed by the public until the year 2020.
I may never know for sure.
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