Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [364]
I bought a hog from Mr. Presley and gave him a check for it and he allowed two other young men to see the check and copy the signature and the other men forged checks on me and I understand they paid Presley about $15.00 of the money they got on the forged checks for allowing them to copy the signature of the legitimate check I gave him, and not saying anything about it, but when Presley was asked about the matter he told the whole truth at the very beginning.
This young man has a wife and one small child that are in financial distress, and they need him very badly. He is not a bad man and has never been. The money was repaid to me and this man realizes the mistake he has made and I believe he has been sufficiently punished. He is a splendid young man and if given a chance I confidently believe he will make a good and useful citizen and for these reasons I respectfully ask you to grant him a pardon.
Yours very truly,
O.S. Bean
21 “he has never even been drunk”: Gladys Presley and Minnie Mae Presley, letter, October 29, 1938.
21 “My health is bad”: Gladys Presley, letter, November 25, 1938.
22 “He wouldn’t wait”: Annie Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript.
22 “Aunt Gladys”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
22 “crying his eyes out”: Unnamed Presley relative, quoted in “The Boy Who Would Be King,” by Steve Dougherty, This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
22 “After [Vernon] went to prison:” Unnamed Presley friend, quoted in “The Boy Who Would Be King,” by Steve Dougherty, This Is Elvis: Special Collector’s Edition of TV Guide, August 2002.
22 “He’d run up to you”: Annie Presley, quoted in Whitmer, Peter O., The Inner Elvis.
23 “Twinless twins”: Whitmer, Peter O., The Inner Elvis.
23 “Elvis was just learning”: Lillian Smith Fortenberry, raw interview transcript, Mississippi Room Collection, Lee County Library (MRC), probably from the papers of Elaine Dundy.
24 “Given what is known”: Whitmer, Peter O., The Inner Elvis.
24 “a real condensed round”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
24 “Elvis would rip”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
25 “like speaking in tongues”: Peter O. Whitmer to author, 2009.
25 “He couldn’t do it”: Ibid.
25 “Elvis’s thing”: Lamar Fike to author, 1992.
25 “It’s not so much”: Peter O. Whitmer to author, 2009.
26 “Because of this fact”: Ibid.
26 “Back then”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
27 “vaccinated against work”: Aaron Kennedy, quoted in Mississippi Room Collection, Lee County Library (MRC), probably from the papers of Elaine Dundy.
27 “I remember one night”: Annie Presley, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
27 “When he was four or five”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
28 “Elvis used to carry”: Ibid.
29 “Elvis saw the doctor”: Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
29 “I can close my eyes”: Elois Bedford Sandifur, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
29 “I picked him”: Elois Bedford Sandifur, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Tupelo Years.
30 “very common clothes”: Ibid.
30 “What I remember most”: Ibid.
30 “I was just about”: Elois Bedford Sandifur, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
31 “We would walk in the woods”: Magdalene Morgan, quoted in TomBigbee Country Magazine.
31 “We were so close”: Magdalene Morgan, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Tupelo Years.
32 “went and sat”: Annie Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript.
32 “One night one of his uncles”: Bobby Roberts, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Tupelo Years.
32 “I could wake her up”: Elvis Presley, press conference titled “Press Interview with Elvis Presley.” Brooklyn, N.Y. Source: “Elvis Sails” EP, September 22, 1958.
32 “She didn’t walk him”: Annie Presley, quoted in Burk, Bill E., Early Elvis: The Tupelo Years.
32 “Being a neighbor”: Oleta