Patsy's father was Samuel Lawrence Hensley, who was the son of Solomon Job Hensley and Elizabeth Margaret Shifflett Hensley. After Samuel's first wife Ynona Jones died in 1927, he married Hilda Virginia Patterson, who was Patsy's mother.
Her grandmother, Elizabeth Margaret "Maggie" Shifflett was born on July 2, 1859, and died June 22, 1938. She was the daughter and 12th child of Solomon and Frances Collier Shifflett. Solomon was the youngest child of Stephen and Joanna McDaniel Shifflett. Solomon was born ca. 1818 and died in Rockingham Co., Va. in 1903. He married first, Frances Collier, daughter of Martin and Fannie Marshall Collier, on October 17, 1838 in Greene Co., VA. Frances died on June 12, 1889 and is buried in the Baugher Family Cemetery in Beldore, Va., near Swift Run Gap. He married second, Matilda Shifflett Atkins, daughter of David and Lucinda Shifflett.
Solomon's father was Stephen Shifflett who was born ca. 1775 and died in Rockingham Co., Va., in 1865. Stephen was apparently born in Orange Co., Va., and moved to Hightop Mountain in the Blueridge Mountains between 1800 and 1810.
