Eskel Crookshanks
1896 - 1976 (79 years)-
Name Eskel Crookshanks Birth 30 May 1896 Cornstalk, Greenbrier Co., WV 
[1, 2] Gender Male Death 27 Mar 1976 Cornstalk, Greenbrier Co., WV [3] Cause: heart attack Burial 30 Mar 1976 Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV [3] Person ID I19180 Meadow Bluff Meanderings Last Modified 16 Apr 2025
Father Wallace Crookshanks, b. 1845, Greenbrier Co., VA d. 5 Aug 1914, Cornstalk, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 69 years) Mother Isabella J. Hayslett, b. 6 Jun 1860, Rockbridge Co., VA d. 14 Mar 1929, Cornstalk, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 68 years) Marriage 23 Sep 1880 Greenbrier Co., WV Family ID F8140 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elva Janie Price, b. 23 Sep 1908, Greenbrier Co., WV d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 27 Oct 1926 Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., WV [4] Children 1. Ruby Helen Crookshanks 2. Violet Crookshanks 3. Verlin Clita Crookshanks 4. Zemry C. Crookshanks Family ID F17848 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Apr 2025
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Burial - 30 Mar 1976 - Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV 
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Notes - Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, WV, 28 Mar 1976, p. 6E, col. 1
https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-gazette-mail-eskel-crookshanks-ob/170417919/
CORNSTALK - Eskel Crookshanks, 79, of Cornstalk, Greenbrier County, died Saturday at home after an apparent heart attack.
Mr. Crookshanks, a retired farmer, was a lifelong resident of Cornstalk.
Surviving: daughters, Mrs. Ruby Thomas of Williamsburg, Mrs. Violet Thomas of Clintonville; sons, Verlin of Rupert, Zemery of Clintonville; sister, Mrs. Dotsie Tharp of Cornstalk; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Service will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Williamsburg Pentecostal Holiness Church, Williamsburg, with the Rev. George Bailey officiating. Burial will be in Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Monday and to 9 p.m. Monday at Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
- Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, WV, 28 Mar 1976, p. 6E, col. 1
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Sources - [S1748] WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [Fourth Draft; 'Old Man's Registration'], (Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com : 2010.), (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Apr 2025), card for Eskel Crookshanks, Serial No. U539; Local Board #1, Selective Service, Lewisburg (Greenbrier County), West Virginia. (Reliability: 3).
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- [S1475] West Virginia. Greenbrier County., Greenbrier Co., WV Marriage Register, (Digital images. West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Vital Research Records. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ : 2010.), marriage register, 7: 97, Crookshanks-Price, 1926; accessed 15 Apr 2025. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1748] WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [Fourth Draft; 'Old Man's Registration'], (Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com : 2010.), (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Apr 2025), card for Eskel Crookshanks, Serial No. U539; Local Board #1, Selective Service, Lewisburg (Greenbrier County), West Virginia. (Reliability: 3).