When Vada Mai Spivey was born on 22 June 1907, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Franklin James Spivey, was 27 and her mother, Roxie Helen Crowder, was 21. She married John Quarles Head on 1 April 1927. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 8, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1950. She died on 22 February 1979, in Whitleyville, Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Clark Cemetery, Gainesboro, Jackson, Tennessee, United States.
English (Yorkshire): from the Middle English personal name Spivi, of unexplained etymology. There is a slight possibility that it could be a pet form of ancient Germanic Spirwig, attested in the patronymic of a Norman tenant, Eudo filius Spireuuic, 1086 in Domesday Book (Lincolnshire). The alteration of Spivey to Spib(e)y, as if it were from a placename, seems to occurs from the 15th century, but the letters -v- and -b- are often difficult to distinguish at this time and during the following century, so the phonetic change may have occurred later.
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