Cooty Snowden1,2
F, #7508, b. 3 March 1898, d. 22 May 1927
Cooty Snowden was also known as Pearl. She was born on 3 March 1898 at Texas
.3,1,4,5 She was the daughter of Hardy Snowden and Nellie Gardner.6 Cooty Snowden was also known as Coottie Snowden.3,1,6 She appeared as a daughter on the census of 28 April 1910 in the household of Hardy Snowden and Nettie Snowden at Pct 6, Tyler County, Texas
.6 She was employed as a farm laborer on a home farm on 28 April 1910 at Pct 6, Tyler County, Texas
.6 She married David Franklin Hayes, son of Franklin Pierce Hayes and Nancy Virginia Sumrall, on 11 June 1912 at Tyler County, Texas
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She appeared on the census of 3 September 1920 at Pct 7, Angelina County, Texas
, in the household of her husband David Franklin Hayes.1 She died from from a gunshot wound to the chest, which was ruled suicide on 22 May 1927 at Manning, Angelina County, Texas
, at age 29 years, 2 months and 19 days.9,3,4,10,5 She was buried at Mann Cemetery, CR 2836, Tyler County, Texas
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Children of Cooty Snowden and David Franklin Hayes
- Minnie Lois Hayes+3 b. 7 Aug 1913, d. 5 Jan 2004
- Luceil Hayes11 b. 31 Mar 1917, d. 9 Sep 1917
- Ralph Edwin Hayes+3 b. 27 Sep 1919, d. 25 Oct 2000
- Rayburn Doyle Hayes+3 b. 22 Oct 1922, d. 10 Jul 2001
- Frances L. Hayes3
Citations
- [S441] 03 Sep 1920, United States Federal Census, [database on-line], Provo, Utah County, Utah, Roll: T625_1773, P20A.
- [S447] Jim W. and Ann Crews Laird, Tyler County Texas Gravestone Inscriptions.
- [S435] James H. Hayes, "E-Mail Messages from James H. Hayes," e-mail to Joe Peery, Various dates 2007, 2008, 2009.
- [S447] Jim W. and Ann Crews Laird, Tyler County Texas Gravestone Inscriptions, p. 87.
- [S532] Cooty Hayes, Cemetery Marker, Mann Cemetery, CR 2836, Tyler County, Texas.
- [S442] 22 Apr 1910, United States Federal Census, [database on-line], Provo, Utah County, Utah, Roll: T624_1594, P8A.
- [S948] Jim & Ann Crews Laird, Tyler County Marriage Records, Groom Index P65 Bride Index P139.
- [S436] 05 May 1930, United States Federal Census, [database on-line], Provo, Utah County, Utah, Roll: 2288, P2A.
- [S733] Cooty Hayes, Texas Department of Health-Death Certificate.
- [S391] Texas Death Index, online www.ancestry.com.
- [S531] Luceil Hayes, Cemetery Marker, Mann Cemetery, CR 2836, Tyler County, Texas.