The headstone at Graceland
On January 8, 1935 Gladys Presley
gave birth to a twin. Jesse Garon, and
Elvis Aaron in a shotgun shack in Tupelo
Mississippi. Jesse Garon was stillborn and announced
dead at birth. Noted Presley biographer
Peter Guralnick wrote that he was
still-born.
Jesse Garon Presley was buried in a shoebox in
an unmarked grave in the Princeville
Cemetery in
East Tupelo.
Elvis Aaron lived, and was happy and
healthy.
Eye witness’s state in Elaine Dundy’s
book “Elvis & Gladys” that Jesse was
placed in a box on a table while Gladys
gave birth to Elvis.
Neighbors who came by to pay their
respects, are unable to describe the
deceased infant.
It is unknown if Jesse
and Elvis were identical twins or not.
He was then prepared for burial in the
cemetery and laid to rest. There is a
historical discrepancy in print
regarding his grave site.
It is listed in many books that there is
‘no’ marker, and other books state there
is a marker which is ‘un-marked’
Elvis suffered greatly throughout his
life being a twin-less twin. The
condition is heartbreaking and more or
less, untreatable.
Twins have a bond inside the womb that
is irreplaceable when one twin dies,
thus adding difficulty to the childhood
of the surviving twin.
This is likely to have contributed to a
number or Elvis’s personality traits,
strengths, weaknesses etc.
Jesse Garon’s remains were never moved
to Memphis. To this day, he is still
buried in an unmarked grave in Tupelo.
A headstone in his honor sits at
Graceland. The memorial headstone is not
placed next to his father, mother,
brother, and grandmother.
"Jesse" on his album The Drift
that uses Jesse and Elvis to comment on
the September 11, 2001 attacks.
If you like Elvis Noir, you might like
Brett Wallach’s fictional book “The
Search For Jesse Garon”
