Etta Beatrice Earlene Carnes

Brief Life History of Etta Beatrice Earlene

When Etta Beatrice Earlene Carnes was born on 6 March 1923, in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Homer Carnes, was 24 and her mother, Alpharetta Lucinda Evellen Prewett, was 22. She married Jim Coker Griffin on 16 June 1940, in Dade, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Fort Payne, DeKalb, Alabama, United States in 1940. She died on 13 May 2012, in Centre, Cherokee, Alabama, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mountain View Memory Gardens, Fort Payne, DeKalb, Alabama, United States.

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Jim Coker Griffin
1921–2015
Etta Beatrice Earlene Carnes
1923–2012
Marriage: 16 June 1940
Retta Sue Griffin
1943–

Sources (13)

  • Etta Carnes in household of Homer Carnes, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Etta Carnes, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  • Etta Carnes Griffin, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1927

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

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1947 · The Presidential Succession Act

The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: variant of Cairns or sometimes Carins, a variant of Caron , with excrescent -s.

English and Cornish: in southern England a variant of Carn , with excrescent -s.

Irish: variant of Kearns .

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

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