Helen Hayes in the Southern Quote
She was born on October 10th, 1900 in Washington D.C. From her first stage performance at age five, she showed an incredible connection with her audience. Five years later, the ten-year old took her growing list of credits and made her first appearance on Broadway. After graduating from the Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent, Helen moved to New York as a seasoned seventeen year old.
General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson in the Southern Quote
He was born January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, Virginia. His parents, patriotic Revolutionary stock, died when he was a child. He was a leader from boyhood and his country upbringing made him a bold and expert rider. In June, 1842 he was appointed to a cadetship in the Military Academy at West Point. After graduation he served in the Mexican War, where he quickly received promotions
Jerry Reed in the Southern Quote
Shortly after he was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1937, his parents separated. Jerry and his sister would spend the next seven years in foster homes and orphanages before his mother remarried. Together with her new husband, Jerry's mom reclaimed her kids. The unit was shaky, each nursing wounds that would take time to heal. To ease everyone's stress, little Jerry picked up a guitar
Larry McMurtry in the Southern Quote
He was born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas but he grew up on a ranch outside Archer City. In years to come the area would become the model for a town called Thalia that appeared in much of his fiction. Larry McMurtry’s life has been one filled with books and a love of bookstores. His first start in the business was a job managing
Samuel Jackson Snead in the Southern Quote
He was born May 27, 1912 in Ashwood, Virginia. At the age of 7 he began working as a caddy at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. He got his first job as an assistant pro when he was 19 and turned pro in 1934. This self-taught golfer joined the PGA Tour in 1936 and achieved immediate success. That was interrupted while he served in the
Sam Snead in the Southern Quote
He was born May 27, 1912 in Ashwood, Virginia. At the age of 7 he began working as a caddy at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. He got his first job as an assistant pro when he was 19 and turned pro in 1934. This self-taught golfer joined the PGA Tour in 1936 and achieved immediate success. That was interrupted while he served in the
Sarah Breedlove in the Southern Quote
She was born December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, one of six children. Her parents and elder siblings were slaves on a Madison Parish plantation but she was the first child in the family born into freedom after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Her mother died in 1872 and her father shortly thereafter. In 1878, to escape a yellow fever epidemic and failing
Carl Perkins in the Southern Quote
This son of a Tennessee tenant farmer was born in 1932. He and his brother grew up in the cotton fields, enchanted by the rhythmic gospel music of their fellow laborers. By the age of seven he was playing a guitar fashioned from a cigar box, a broom handle, and some baling wire for strings. He'd hide behind the chicken house and pretend to perform
Johnny Mercer in the Southern Quote
This southerner was born in Savannah, Georgia on the eighteenth of November, 1909 with a love for music in his veins. If you can believe it, his aunt used to say he was humming music when he was six months old. Okay. Perhaps this will be more believable. As a young boy Johnny loved to sing in church Sunday morning and spend his Sunday afternoons
Egbert Roscoe Murrow in the Southern Quote
Egbert was born April 25, 1908 to Quaker parents in Guilford County, North Carolina. The family home was a log cabin without electricity or plumbing. When he was six years old his family moved across the country to western Washington state 30 miles south of the Canadian border. Young Egbert was an excellent student. After high school he enrolled in Washington State, where he majored