Elmer Virgil Hinshaw

┌── Charles Newton Hinshaw │ 1849-1918 ┌── Edward Newton Hinshaw ──┤ │ 1877-1951 │ │ └── Anna Ella Smith │ 1852-1947 Elmer Virgil Hinshaw ───┤ B: 1915 │ ┌── Christopher Plunkett D: 1988 │ │ └── Lona Maude Plunkett ────┤ 1882-1951 │ └── Minnie Lena Skeels M: Helen E. Hauskins ├── Thomas Hinshaw (1958-) ^1,2,3 └── Samuel Hinshaw (1978-) ^1,2,3

He married Helen E. Hauskins¹, Feb 5 1949¹, Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois¹ [Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky¹¹]. Helen, daughter of Dale "Bud" Hauskins & Illinois "Noy" Casey, was born Oct 9 1921, Ramsey, Fayette County, Illinois.^1,11,12,13

Virgil was night editor with the Bloomington (Illinois) Daily Pantagraph,^4,5,6 where his future cousin-in-law Martha Cooper also worked; Virgil was responsible for introducing Martha to his cousin Maurice, and they were subsequently married.⁴

Virgil had "club feet" - Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) - as did his brother Don.^14,15 The club feet came from his mother's side, where all of her brothers had it.

Virgil and Helen were shown in the 1952 city direcory of Sterling, Illinois:¹⁰

Elmer Virgil Hinshaw died Jul 28 1988, Pana, Christian County, Illinois; buried Ramsey, Illinois.^1,7

Helen died Jan 18 2015, Piatt County Nursing Home, Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois; age 93.^11,16

Helen's obituary was published in "The Journal-News" (Hillsboro, Illinois) on Tuesday, January 20, 2015,¹¹ and in "The Leader-Union" (Vandalia, Illinois) on January 21-28, 2015:¹⁷

Photo: Helen Hauskins Aug 2008, at the grave of her great grandfather, John Francis Brown ¹²

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