Mayme Hooper

Brief Life History of Mayme

When Mayme Hooper was born about 1907, in Arkansas, United States, her father, David Lafait Hooper, was 26 and her mother, Zula Belle Fulbright, was 23. She married Charles Elcanie Harrell on 28 March 1926, in Haskell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Lincoln, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 1, Haskell, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 5 January 1958, in Haskell, Haskell, Texas, United States, at the age of 52.

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Family Time Line

Charles Elcanie Harrell
1898–1972
Mayme Hooper
1907–1958
Marriage: 28 March 1926
Thomas Ray Harrell
1927–2004
Mayme Kathryn Harrell
1930–2020

Sources (10)

  • Ma?ie Hooper, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Mayme Hooper, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
  • Mayme Helen Harrell, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1906 · Diamonds Found Near Murfreesboro

In a 37- acre plowed field in  a state park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas visitors are able to go looking for diamonds. This was the site for the first diamond discovery in 1906. Through the years more than 33,100 diamonds have been found at the Crater of Diamonds. 

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

English (southwestern): occupational name for a cooper, someone who fitted wooden or metal hoops on wooden casks and barrels, or a barrel-maker, from Middle English hoper, an agent derivative of hop ‘hoop, band’. Compare Cooper .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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