1920 Eva and Fred are living in Omega Township in Marion County, Illinois. They have four children: Dean, "Ilean" (Inez Eileen), "Louisa" (Gladys Louise) and "Fleta" (Fleeta).[1]
1930 Eva and Fred are living in Meacham, Marion County, Illinois with their six children Dean, Inez, Gladys, Fleeta, Doyle and Donald.[2]
1940 Eva and Fred are now living in Sharon Township, Fayette County, Illinois with Louise, Doyle and Donald.[3]
1959 "Mrs. Eva HANKS, 72, of this city, is a patient in St. Mary’s Hospital, Decatur, where she is confined because of serious injuries received in a car accident which occurred Oct. 29th near Atwood, IL. Mrs. Effie LAMB, 79, of Bement, driver of the car, and a cousin to Mrs. HANKS, had visited Mrs. HANKS in Kinmundy that day, and was returning to her home in company with Mrs. HANKS who was going to visit. The car struck a bridge about a half a mile west of Atwood. As soon as she is able to be moved, she will be taken to the home a daughter in Lincoln."[4]
1972 Eva died on 23 July in Brownsville, Texas, USA[5]
Research Notes
Eva May is listed as having the last name of "Ferguson" in her daughter Fleeta's death record. [6]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJHN-N2H : accessed 27 September 2015), Eva Hanks in household of Fred Hanks, Omega, Marion, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 2A, family 28, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,391.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS1C-85F : accessed 26 September 2015), Eva M Hanks in household of Fred Hanks, Meacham, Marion, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0021, sheet 7A, family 147, line 13, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 543; FHL microfilm 2,340,278.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW4B-ZVH : 15 March 2018), Eva Hanks in household of Fred Hanks, Sharon Township, Fayette, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-33, sheet 16A, line 40, family 12, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 801.
↑ Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. "California, Death Index, 1940-1997"; Los Angeles, 2 Nov 1991; Source Information: Ancestry.com. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
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