Mae Honeycutt Flowe 1898 - 1999

Mae was born February 13, 1898 in the community of Leo

in Stanly County, NC, daughter of Eli T. Huneycutt and

Ida Ann Little Huneycutt. The spelling of the sunname

appears as both Huneycutt and later Honeycutt.

The eldest daughter of Eli and Ida Ann,

Foda, learned in school the spelling of “Honey,” and

taught her younger siblings to spell their surname as

“Honeycutt.”   Eli T. Huneycutt’s surname appears as

both Huneycutt and Honeycutt in official records.

There are multiple other spellings of the surname,

including Huneycut, Honeycut, and Hannicut.

Mae was the middle child of eleven children born to

Eli and Ida Ann, and the child who survived the longest.

In her childhood and youth, she was a participant

at Clark’s Grove Primitive Baptist Church south of

the Stanfield community. Though she never officially

joined the congregation, stating that she did not feel

worthy of doing so, she considered herself to be

Primitive Baptist (Old Side) throughout her life.

Mae Honeycutt married John Oates Flowe of

Mecklenburg County (NC) in 1918. They lived together

on their farm in the Clear Creek community of

Mecklenburg County.   Mae and John had six children,

Walter (1918), Virginia (1920), John (1923), James,

Nell (1930), and Margaret Ann.  All of Mae’s children are

now deceased with the exception of Margaret Ann.

About 1954, Mae left her husband as a result of

decades of spousal abuse. She lived for some time

in the Stanfield community of Stanly County before

moving into a home adjacent to her daughter Nell and

Nell's husband about 1964. Mae essentially reared her

grandson Jim who, without her love and support,

would not have survived. Mae had a total of eight

grandchildren, five of whom survive at this writing

in 2023.

Mae enjoyed flower gardening and vegetable gardening

in season. She lived alone for the several decades,

enjoying crocheting and visiting with family.

Following her daughter Nell’s death in 1979, she

moved to an apartment in Mint Hill for several years.

She then moved into the home of her daughter Virginia,

thence to a care home in Rock Hill when a series of

strokes left her with physical limitations. Mae died at

a care home in Rock Hill in 1999, at the age of 101.

Mae was kind, gentle, passive perhaps to a fault, but

always loving of her children and grandchildren. Mae

was a life that mattered. Her values continue to live

in her surviving daughter and grandson.

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