They lived at Greencastle, Indiana.
They moved to Lamar so that Joel and his son Elmer Lee could
run the AT&SF pump station to fill locomotives
with water. This was on 12/18 or 19 of 1887
when Carl Curtis was 3 and his brother Elmer Lee was 21.
Father: xx Shinn
Mother: xx
Children:
Otis, Lee, Alma, Ollie, Rose (Mae), Margaret, Dessie.
Carl Curtis Shinn