Life History

Notes

• 1920 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Texas, 10 February, Whitebead, District 18, page 9B, Hse/Family #184
  Hayes, Hendricks Head Owns M W 66  GA GA GA Farmer (b abt 1853)
  Hayes, Era Wife Rents F W 44  AR AR AR (b abt 1875)
  Hayes, Amey Dau F W 6  TX TX TX (b abt 1913)
  
  1930 Federal Census, Garvin County, Oklahoma, 25 April, Lindsay, District 11, page 19A, Hse #255, Fam #270
  Hayes, Henry [sic] Head Rents M W 76  First married at age 44 GA GA GA Farmer
  Hayes, Era Wife F W 54 First married at age 21 AR AR AR
  Hayes, Amy Dau F W 16 Single OK GA AR
  
  Earl Jones has done a good job gathering information on this family.  He provides the following information on Amy Jo, whose full proper name was Amy Lena.
  
  Amy "Jo" Lena HAYES was born on 12 May 1913 in Maysville, Garvin, Oklahoma. She died on 4 Jan 1987. Amy married Clarence Walton ZINN-9147 on 7 Jul 1945 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.
  --  http://earljones.net/aqwg356.htm#9146
  
  Amy's grave is in Greenhill Cemetery, Lindsay, McClain Oklahoma.  A the time of the photo her death information had not been added.  It is presumed that she was buried there.  Her funeral card reports that burial occurred in Greenhill Cemetery.  Following is the text of her obituary printed in the Funeral Program by Hibbs Funeral Home, Lindsay, Oklahoma.  Courtesy of Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins.
  
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  Amy Lena "Jo" Zinn
  May 12, 1913 - December 10, 2011
  
  Amy Lena "Jo" Zinn was born May 12, 1913 - December 10, 2011 near Maysville in Garvin County, OK and passed from this life May 12, 1913 - December 10, 2011 at Midwest City Regional Hospital at the age of 98 years.  She was born to Hendrix Hayes, a minister of the Gospel, and Edna Era Talburt, Lindsay area residents for many years until their death.
  
  True to her Christian heritage, Amy Lena "Jo" Hayes married Clarence Walton Zinn minister of the Gospel, on July 7, 1945 in Dallas, TX.  They were long time members of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Oklahoma City.  Her husband Walt preceded her in death on January 4, 1987.
  
  Jo was also preceded in death by her brothers, Ernest Hayes, Ray Hayes, Forrest Hayes, Jack Hayes and sisters, Myrtle Cox and Mable Cox and Pearl McCoy.  Jo and Walt had no children but many nieces and nephews.  Her nephew James Gay was her guardian until his death in 2009 at which time her grand-nieces Dorothy Campbell and Johnna Campbell, became her primary care-givers with the help of another niece Barbara Craytor.
  
  Jo is survived by her nieces Ruby Price, Bobby Hood, Judith Martinez, Cathy Gay and Joan Gay, nephews Joseph Gay, Wayne Hayes, and Danny Hayes as well as many grand nieces and nephews including Dorothy and Danny Campbell, Barbara and Dayne Craytor, Diana Gay, Mark and Sandy Gay and Mike Gay, great-grandnieces and nephews, Corey and Tabitha Campbell, Johnna Campbell, C J Enochs, Jennifer Gay, Jason Craytor, Jonathan Craytor, Brooklin Campbell, Ayson Campbell and many friends.
  --  Funeral Program for Amy Jo Hayes Zinn, Hibbs Funeral Home, Choctaw, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
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  Amy's memorial on Find a Grave is just a transcription of the information on the headstone, which lacks her data of death.
  
  Amy Jo Hayes Zinn
  Birth May 12, 1913
  Death unknown [death was on December 10, 2011]
  Wife of C. Walton Zinn
  Burial Green Hill Cemetery, McClain County, Oklahoma, USA
  Created by Cindy Fanning Apr 05, 2006
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #13866161, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ZI&GSfn=a&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=38&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=41&GRid=13866161&df=all&

Sources

• 1. Funeral Cards/Programs
• 2. Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, Personal Communication
• 3. Earl Jones Genealogy
• 4. 1930 Federal Census, Garvin County, Oklahoma
  • 25 April, Lindsay, District 11, page 19A, Hse #255, Fam #270
• 5. 1920 Federal Census, Garvin County, Oklahoma
  • 4 February, Whitebead, District 43, page 11B, Hse #172, Family #173
• 6. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014