M My Momleata Jackson's Life

March 23, 1977 was the day my mom was born. She grew up in Baldwin County living in Daphne, Alabama. She grew up with two sisters, one whole which passed as an infant, and one brother. She was the middle child of the two and grew up a necessary good childhood. She graduated from Daphne High School but did not attend college because of getting pregnant at the age of eighteen with her first baby girl, Teneshia Coleman. Her mother was very supportive yet very stern on her being independent, so she moved out to get her own apartment. She did all she can to provide for her child. At the age of twenty-three, she was pregnant with her second girl, Tamiah Coleman. From living in Daphne her whole life she got married for the first time and moved to Mobile, Alabama where she spent three years of her life. During that time she gave birth to her third and final child, Travis Stallworth. In the year of 2003, she got a divorce and moved back across the bay to Fairhope, where she began the rest of her life. …show more content…
She has sacrificed so much for her family. She is an independent woman who does not back down to obstacles life throws at her. She has been through so many things that I do not know about or could not handle on my own. It is a point where she has been completely emotionally broken, single, and unemployed for a short period of time of her life. She has never complained even when I or my sister and brother were going through our bratty adolescent years, complaining about everything. My mother is strong even when she does not want to be, because she knows she has a family and