Vada Mai Spivey

Female22 June 1907–22 February 1979

Brief Life History of Vada Mai

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.

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Family Time Line

John Quarles Head
1905–1996
Vada Mai Spivey
1907–1979
Marriage: 1 April 1927
Ruby Lee Head
1929–2019
Louise Head
1930–2011
Edis J. Head
1932–2021
Curtis J Head
1934–2018
Johnnie Willard Head
1939–2023
Dwane Head
1942–2019

Sources (8)

  • Mar Spivy, "United States Census, 1920"
  • May Spivey, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Mai Head, "United States Social Security Death Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1 April 1927
  • Children (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (2)

    World Events (8)

    1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed

    Age 1

    Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.

    1909 · The NAACP is formed

    Age 2

    Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

    1927

    Age 20

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    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.

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

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