I was born in a small county, in northern Mississippi. I was one of many children born into the sharecropper family. I was raised in a Children’s Home in Ridgeland, Mississippi, where I attended el...view moreI was born in a small county, in northern Mississippi. I was one of many children born into the sharecropper family. I was raised in a Children’s Home in Ridgeland, Mississippi, where I attended elementary school and most of Junior high school. I was very athletic, playing whatever sport it was for that season, football, basketball, baseball and soccer. I was an A.A.U. boxer for a period of about a year. Later I went to High School in a small town near central Louisiana. Where I continued to play football and ran track.Later in life. I joined the U.S. Army.I have four beautiful children, two boys and two girls. I now reside in a small rural town just south of Abilene, Texas.view less