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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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 .
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