Baby Named Queenie After Bus Company

On 5 June 1950, Myrtle Melvin of North Carolina gave birth to a baby girl in the back seat of a Queen City Trailways bus. She kept the baby wrapped in seat covers until the bus arrived at its destination, Fayetteville. Myrtle later decided to name the baby Queenie “in honor of the bus company.”

Sources:

• Hall, Douglass. “Baby Born on Bus With Waitress Acting as Midwife.” Washington Afro-American, 13 June 1950: 12.
• “Negro Baby Born on Bus Named ‘Queenie’.” Rock Hill Herald 7 Jun. 1950: 2.