| Elvis Presley wasn't just loved by his fans. He wasn't | | | | only one child, Elvis' family lived just a little over the |
| just The King on stage; he was also a man with a | | | | poverty line. The family attended a church called |
| family. His life was a classic rags-to-riches story; but as | | | | Assembly of God located in East Tupelo. |
| money accumulated, it seemed that he and his family | | | | Although Elvis' family wasn't considered dirt poor, it is |
| were yet again on a sudden spiraling descent, only this | | | | said that they lost their home when they weren't able |
| time it was more on the emotional than financial side. | | | | to pay the money they borrowed to build it. The |
| Good or bad, there was no denying that Elvis was and | | | | eviction came at a time when his father was serving a |
| still is among the most famous men who ever lived. | | | | prison sentence due to forgery of a check for only $8. |
| And the only way to understand his ways is to take a | | | | The sentence was for eight months; even so, this |
| peak at the various chapters of his family life. | | | | incident left a big mark on the Elvis' family. |
| Early Family Life | | | | Elvis' Family At Graceland |
| Elvis' family came from a long line of German, French, | | | | At the age of 13, Elvis' family moved to Memphis. It |
| Scottish and Cherokee descent. Vernon Presley, his | | | | was in the latter part of the 1940's but life here wasn't |
| father, was a sharecropper and a truck driver who | | | | much different from when they were in Mississippi. |
| hailed from Fulton, Mississippi. Gladys Love Smith, his | | | | They lived in a public housing unit. |
| mother, was a sewing machine operator who came | | | | Only when Elvis' career surged, which wouldn't happen |
| from Pontotoc County, in Mississippi. Elvis' family | | | | for yet another nine years, did the family start to live |
| started when his parents married on June 17, 1933. | | | | comfortably. At age 22, Elvis had acquired enough |
| Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He had a | | | | money to buy a mansion from a doctor for $100,000. |
| twin named Jesse Garon who was stillborn. Having | | | | |