Disappearance of Sky Metalwala
Solomon said he believed that his son was alive, but perhaps not in the U.S. In spring of 2011, after the visit to the doctor that was the last independent record of Sky's presence outside of Biryukova's household, he recalled that her estranged father came from Ukraine to visit her. He wondered to the "Weekly" if the older man could have taken the boy back to that country with him at the time. But in 2013, he said that he did not know how that could have happened.
Solomon T. Clanton
On June 6, 1883 Clanton married Olive Bird of Decatur, Illinois, daughter of John and Rebecca Bird. They had six children, including Edna, Georgie, Bennie, Solomon, and Dwight. Bennie and Solomon became an attourneys in Springfield, Illinois and Chicago. Dwight was a Corporal in World War I. Georgie died in 1911 Clanton died May 18, 1918 in Chicago. His funeral was at Antioch Baptist Church in his wife's home town of Decatur.