Eugene Shubal Thurston Jr. (1920-1992) was born on November 20, 1920 to Eugene Shubal Thurston and Alice M. (Orr) Thurston in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Eugene married Erma Louise Joy (1922-1992), daughter of Reginald Montell Joy and Macia F. (Gordon) Joy and then married Helen Margaret Swan (1921-1973), daughter of James Russell Swan and Ethel M. (Hooper) Swan, on September 14, 1940 in Southwest Harbor. Eugene Shubal Thurston Jr. died on July 10, 1992 in Manset, Maine.