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I dare say that a bedraggled looking person, could flop around in homeless shelters and missions, look for work, beg, seek aid, etc. for years even if she DID know her own name, before anyone necessarily would even check to see if someone by that name were reported missing or wanted by family somewhere.

This even though today, any of us could get on a computer and find persons with similar name, news stories of her vanishing, and the like.

PS Wonder how much money she had? Apparently she also owned a home

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Oh, BTW, despite offices in large cities like Nashville, A G Edwards has little offices in little towns across the South and Midcountry

and (assuming there was only one Alice Perley) they could quickly have called her former broker (their brokers stay with them forever) and he would have known all about her circumstances (their brokers usually know the client quite well)...and that would have done it.

With no account number.