Vivian B Henry (1907 - 1952)

Husband of Iona H. (Shulenberger) McLaughlin — married 1931 in Humboldt, , Kansas, USA

Died 7 Apr 1952 at about age 45 in Granite City, Madison, Illinois, USA

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Biography

OBITUARY: Trenton Evening Times, Tuesday April 8, 1952 bottom of the page one. AUTO CRASH KILLS FATHER AND SON IN TRAGEDY TRAIL CHATAHM --AP-- Tragedy trailed a Chatham family to Illinois yesterday and almost wiped it out at a grade, crossing as the sought solace for the untimely death of a daughter a month ago. Friends revealed today that Mr. and Mrs. Vivian B. Henry and their son, John, 10, planned to motor to Kansas to visit relatives after losing their 14-year-old daughter, Jane, March 12. She died of brain tumor and they wanted to try to forget, friends said. Yesterday, tragedy struck them again. Their car collided with a freight train at a grade crossing in Granite City, Ill. Henry, 44,and his son were killed. His wife, Iona, also 44, was hospitalized with severe injuries but was reported in satisfactory condition today.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K453-S22 : accessed 21 April 2018), Vivian B Henry, Rutherford Borough, Bergen, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2-319, sheet 12B, line 44, family 280, 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 2314.