Elvis Presley: First Exposures to Gospel Music

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Elvis Aron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 as the twin of Jesse Garon Presley born about 35 minutes before Elvis stillborn in East Tupelo, Mississippi. Vernon Presley, father of Elvis, built a home in preparation for the birth. The home was a two-room shotgun style. Out back there was a pump and an outhouse. The home was lit withoil lamps when he and Gladys moved in December of 1934. When Gladys, Elvis's mother was twenty years old she took a job at the Tupelo Garment Plant that paid two dollars a day for a twelve-hour workday. She settled herself and her family on Kelly Street in East Tupelo where her uncles lived and had started a First Assembly of God church in a tent on a vacant lot. Finish reading this article at: http://smalldogs2.com/ElvisPresleyGraceland