No news is good news so you successfully resolved and are back online cpurbaugh?
Have you any followup learning footnote to relate?
The ‘bench rebuild-global-search’ code seems to collect ‘searchable’ doctype fields
frappe/utils.py at develop · frappe/frappe · GitHub
frappe/global_search.py at develop · frappe/frappe · GitHub
fwiw awhile back Julian posed this question If I create a Contact then delete it it still shows up in Search - #2 by clarkej