If you look in Elaine Dundy's book, Elvis and Gladys, you'll see that John mansell, elvis's great-great- grandfather on thee Smith side, was half scots-irish, half Indian. She says he grew up "wholly 'wild injun'" one thing that made elvis so interesting is this interplay of Irish genes and Indian genes. Gladys side of the family were Indians. Elvis's great-great- great grandmother weasel morning dove white. She was cherokee. Full-blooded. Born 1800, died 1835. Buried in Alabama. She was married to William mansell.
Billy smith:
Elvis knew he had Indian blood in him. He liked that. He said that's where he got his high cheekbones.
Lamar fike:
Gladys was just like her father. She was more like a man with those big, wide shoulders. That's where elvis got them, not Vernon. And, of course, Elvis got his temper from her, too.
Billy smith:
Aunt Gladys is the biggest key to elvis.
Lamar fike:
The Dundy book says that Gladys had some Jewish blood on her side, too.
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Elvis And The Memphis Mafia By Alanna Nash
Non-FictionA monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis and the memphis mafia is the first book to capture the king - the man and the phenomenon- in his full complexity.
