They'd been married for about 18 months, tying the knot on June 17, , according to documentation posted on the Elvis Australia Fan Club site. His parents returned the affection. All That's Interesting reports that in , shortly after Elvis's death, Vernon told Good Housekeeping , "My love for my son began even before he was born. At that time there was almost nobody poorer than my wife Gladys and me.
But we were thrilled and excited when we learned that we were going to be parents. I was only 18 years old, but throughout Gladys' pregnancy it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to take care of her and the baby.
But times were still hard, with the nation still struggling against the Great Depression, especially in the rural South of around Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis was born at home, per Biography — a home built by Vernon, lacking indoor plumbing and electricity. Justice swiftly followed. Johnston sentenced Vernon to three years in the state penitentiary. He got no credit for the six months he had spent in the county jail.
After sentencing came the anxious wait before the prison guards trucked him off to Parchman Farm. Kilgo wrote out the papers committing Vernon and eleven other convicts to Parchman.
He always brought a long chain to which he shackled his prisoners to prevent their escape. Six months in the county jail waiting for a trial had been bad enough, but there was always at least some hope for relief. Orville Bean might decide not to press charges against Vernon.
Relatives and friends might somehow intervene. If it came to a trial, a good lawyer might rise to defend him and the jury might find him innocent. Having changed his plea to guilty, Vernon faced the certainty of serving at hard labor in a notoriously tough prison for three long years, years in which he could not come home every night to his wife and child in their little two-room wooden house in East Tupelo nor earn money to support them. Sensing the pathos in the photograph does not require knowledge of its history.
The bodies of the man and woman are tense with anxiety and dread. The child is anxious and confused. Vernon has put his hat on his head as if making ready to leave.
He faces the camera, but his eyes cut to his left as if watching fearfully for someone or something to appear that he already hears. Gladys also stares to the left, her body stiff. He wears bib overalls over a dark, long-sleeved shirt, charmingly trimmed with white cuffs and a white collar.
The date was January 20th, but he was given two months break so he could film King Creole. Then on March 24th Private Presley number , was sworn into the army and left for Fort Chaffee for basic training. Elvis was going to be sent to Germany and his family would follow him.
Yet being apart from her son, Gladys began to drink and takes pills herself. Soon she began to feel ill and her doctor admitted her to hospital, her skin was turning yellow, the sign of jaundice. Her illness was no clear and Elvis was scared about his mother, they would talk on the phone and he begged for time with her.
The army said no and he even threatened to go AWOL, they let him go to see his mother. When Elvis reached her bedside, she was extremely ill. She did perk up when Elvis was by her side and Elvis stayed by her side for 36 hours and then Elvis went home to sleep. Elvis was asleep when the phone rang in the early hours of Thursday, 14 August. He knew what it was before he answered it. Vernon told him Gladys had died at 3.
In shock and disbelief Elvis rushed to the hospital. After Elvis entered his mother ward and the door closed, witnesses remember a piercing wild despair of wails from Elvis were heard as he wept and prayed long and loud over his mother's lifeless body. He started talking in his baby language. He was crying, screaming and begging her to wake up.
Satnin is gone, my baby is gone he would cry to anyone who would listen. At the funeral Elvis flung himself at his mother in her coffin, hugging and kissing her, rocking her back and forth, weeping endearments and crying out to her in their won special language to come back to him. There was no autopsy, but it was known she had a heart attack and maybe some problems with her liver and her digestion.
Yet to Elvis, knowing the real cause of death never really mattered to him. His beloved mother was gone. She was his life and no-one else really mattered to him. Elvis was hurt she was taken at such a young age. He would never be the same after her death. Nothing could ever salve his pain. Gladys was at peace but her beloved son was trapped in a torment of pain and grief. Then Elvis and Vernon went to Germany. Elvis kept his father close to him and they had a closer father and son relationship now.
Then Vernon did something which really upset Elvis. Vernon started seeing another woman, His father might have only been 42, but Gladys had been in the grave just a few months, and Elvis was hurt and appalled. He saw his fathers willingness even to consider a new relationship at this point was an insult to his mothers memory. He was still in mourning and felt deeply disturbed that his father was ready to move on. Dee Stanley was in her early 30s and married to an older sergeant on the base, who had served in both the Korean and Second World Wars.
Eventually Dee would leave her husband for Vernon and join him in Memphis with her 3 young sons, Billy, Rick and David. Elvis must have wanted Vernon to be happy but he would never fully embrace the woman he felt had usurped his beloved mothers place and he did not go to his fathers second wedding in Alabama, in July Throughout 70's concert tour Vernon travelled everywhere with his son.
As Elvis' business manager, Vernon, with little schooling, had a difficult task organising Elvis' financial fortune. This was never more evident, upon Elvis' death, when a over a million dollars was found in Elvis' personal cheque book, half of which had to be paid in death taxes because Vernon knew little or nothing of tax exemptions. Son and fathere stayed close till August 16th After years of drug abuse and junk food, Elvis gained a lot of weight and had number of hospital visits.
Then On August 16th , Elvis went into the bathroom at Graceland and died alone, face down in his own vomit. Gladys'heart would have broken, if she had been alive and was the one who had found her beloved little boy dead and at the age of only Vernon Presley died 2 years later on June 16th of a broken heart and was lied to rest next to Elvis and Gladys in the Meditation Garden at Graceland.
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