Don't Cry Daddy 1969 Elvis Presley

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Gladys Presley, Elvis Presley’s mother, was the daughter of a cotton farmer, and in the 1930s she met Vernon Presley at church. She was four years older than him, and Vernon was 17, making him underage at the time. They lied about their ages to marry in 1933.
Gladys soon became pregnant and gave birth on January 8, 1935. However, tragedy struck during the birth. Gladys had twins, but the first boy, Jesse Garon Presley, was stillborn. The second boy, Elvis Aaron Presley, survived. Gladys believed that “when one twin died, the one who lived got all the strength of both.”
Gladys always kept Elvis close, perhaps due to the trauma of losing his twin brother. When he was a baby, she would even drag him in a sack beside her while working in the cotton fields. The mother and son had special pet names for each other, communicated in baby talk, and even shared the same bed well into Elvis’s teenage years due to their modest household.

While living at Elvis’s Memphis mansion, Graceland, neighbors reportedly mocked how Gladys did her laundry outdoors, and Elvis’s team asked her to stop feeding her chickens on the lawn. “I wish we were poor again, I really do,” she once confided to a friend. Over time, she grew increasingly depressed, starting to drink more alcohol and take diet pills. In 1958, Gladys developed hepatitis.

Elvis was serving in the US Army at the time, stationed in Germany. He rushed home to see her and thankfully arrived just in time. On August 14, 1958, Gladys Presley passed away at the age of 46. The cause of death was a heart attack, with liver failure due to alcohol poisoning later found to be a contributing factor.
“It broke my heart,” Elvis Presley later said. “She was always my best girl.” Elvis was inconsolable at the funeral, and could barely walk after burying her. His close friends have said he changed significantly after Gladys’s death and never fully got over it.

Elvis himself died nearly exactly 19 years later, on August 16, 1977. He and his parents are buried side by side at his Graceland mansion.