Elvis
in ROTC at Humes High Elvis as an ROTC
student at E. L. Humes High School in Memphis where he graduated
in June of 1953
 The
ring at right was Elvis Presley's high school ring.
Humes High still exists today but now has a museum
to it's most famous alumnus, including the bathroom where
Elvis had his first "forced" hair cut.
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Elvis
Marries!
May 1, 1967, Elvis marries
his first and only wife, Priscilla Beaulieu. The event has
long been considered a major historic event.
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 Remembers
here on these pages the lives of Elvis and his Presley ancestors,
the Presley family and extended family. We remember that Elvis
enjoyed history and we hope this website will bring to light for
Elvis' fans a subject matter Elvis delighted in.
From the book by Dorothy
Nn ad M. Susan Linde e, The DNA stique: The
s a Cutural Icon. (New York: W.H. Freeman & Co., 19 95), 7
, the authors quote from a biography on Elvis written by
Albert Goldman: "Another Elvis
biographer, Albert Goldman, focused on his subject's bad genes,
describing him as the victim of a fatal hereditary disposition.
. . . Goldman attributed Elvis' character to ancestors who con-stituted
a distinctive breed of southern yeomanry commonly known as hillbillies.
A genealogy research organization, Goldman said, had traced Presley's
lineage back nine generations to a nine-teenth-century coward,
deserter and bigamist. In Goldman's narrative, this genetic heritage
explained Elvis' downfall: his addiction to drugs and alcohol,
his emotional disorders, and his premature death were all in his
genes. His fate was a readout of his DNA."
Precisely why this website was designed! To let Elvis and
our ancestors speak for themselves as a full and complete testamentary
to a line of men brave, loyal, and noble during times of war and
in peace. A God-fearing, religious band of southern kin who at
most tried to survive and prevail after a ravaging war destroyed
their lands, their homes, their lives. These are their stories.
Without visiting the history, we could never learn the truth.
We will defend Elvis andt our ancestors, against the rumors and
false accusations made by the uninformed, the uneducated.
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