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Birth name
Josephine Hoover
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Place of Birth
Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi, USA
When Josephine Hoover-Boone (affectionately known as Honey) was born in 1938 in Mississippi, her father, Walter, was 33, and her mother, Julia, was 27. She lived in Holmes, Mississippi, in 1940 and moved to Sunflower, Mississippi, sometime between 1940 and 1950. She has five brothers and four sisters.