![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The shotgun house Baby Elvis called home, the “Birthplace Home of Elvis Presley” in Tupelo, was built by his father, his uncle, and paternal grandfather. Elvis’s mother - a strong and supportive presence in his life - told the young Elvis that a surviving twin gets the strength of both children, and all evidence indicates that, in this case anyway, she was right. Elvis later changed his middle name, Aaron, to Aron, to more closely match his twin’s middle name (Garon). Elvis no doubt later yearned for a brother to help him through the rough spots of his life - of which there were many. His twin brother, Jesse Garon, did not survive, making Elvis what is called today a “twin-less twin.” Elvis was cherished by his family, but psychologists say that losing a twin can deeply affect the baby’s mother and the surviving twin. ![]() What was unusual about Elvis at his birth is that he was a twin. Times were hard in the U.S., especially in the South, when Elvis Presley entered this world. The unemployment rate in the United States in 1935 was 20.1 percent. Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935, in a two-room shotgun house in East Tupelo, then a separate municipality that some called the “roughest town in north Mississippi.” Though poor, Elvis’s parents, Gladys and Vernon Presley, were not unlike many others in Mississippi at that time, for the country was in the midst of the Great Depression. ![]()
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