Eda Mae Haynes

Brief Life History of Eda Mae

When Eda Mae Haynes was born on 8 March 1903, in Mississippi, United States, her father, John Wesley Haynes, was 28 and her mother, Sally Sophia Tholerus, was 25. She died on 22 October 1985, in Greenwood, Leflore, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 82.

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John Wesley Haynes
1875–1942
Sally Sophia Tholerus
1878–1909
Eda Mae Haynes
1903–1985
Miss Haynes
1909–1909

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    World Events (8)

    1904

    St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

    1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

    When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

    1925 · B.B. King is Born

    B.B. King was born on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bean, Mississippi. He was a famous American blues singer, electric guitarist, and record producer. In 1987, he inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Hayne , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s; see Hain . Compare Hains .

    English: habitational name from Haynes (Bedfordshire), which may derive from Old English hagenas, plural form of hagen ‘enclosure’.

    English: in English counties bordering Wales, perhaps from the Welsh personal name Einws (a pet form of Welsh Einion) with a prosthetic H-; see also Enos . While this is linguistically possible there is no evidence yet to show that it was the origin of the surname.

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

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