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Originally Posted by HossC
Si Darling's detective agency is listed at 9406 S Main Street in the 1934 and 1939 CDs (it disappears between these dates). The 1934 CD lists his home address as 340 W 132nd Street. There's a Si Darling at 231 W 118th Street in the CDs from 1956 through to 1963, although it doesn't say whether this is a home or a business address. Maybe oldstuff can dig up some census info to narrow down the date of the card.
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Silas Allen Darling, the eldest son of W.M. and Marjorie Darling, was born in Missouri on April 27, 1884. He and his wife Maggie appear in Blackwater, Missouri in 1910. He was a farm laborer who "worked out" at that time.
When he filled out his draft registration card for WW I he was residing in Colusa, CA and was working for the Deputy County Line Stock Inspector as a laborer. The Draft card at that time lists that he was tall and slender with blue eyes and light hair. He and his wife then appear in the 1920 Census in Colusa, California where he was noted to be a rice farmer.
He and Maggie are in Anaheim, California in 1924 and 1925 when they appear in directories. The directories list him as a deputy sheriff.
In the 1930 Census he is found, living in Compton with his wife Maggie and daughters Nadine, Dorothy, Mary and Beverly, along with a son, Stanley. (Stanley had a twin sister who apparently died at birth) Mr. Darling is now a policeman for the City of Los Angeles. That census shows him living on West 132nd Street, but there is no house number. This may have been a house located on a larger piece of farmland.
At the time he registered for the Draft in WWII he was "self-employed in private patrol and investigation" His residence was noted at that time as 118 E. 111th place, Los Angeles.
This information would date the card to at least the 30's.
Silas died in Torrance, CA on October 3, 1963. He is buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park in Gardena. His gravestone, which has his name as "Si" Darling notes that he was a Mason
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