8. His Parents Started Out Marriage Living in a Tool Shed
Alan Jackson’s parents married at a very young age. His mother was only 16, while his father was just 19, so his parents scrambled to raise him and his siblings. That also meant allowing them to live in a tool shed his grandfather built for them. It started there, but slowly the Jacksons added on as the family kept growing.
“My granddaddy had built this 12-by-12 tool shed, and when my mama and daddy got married, they rolled the tool shed on logs to their plot of land next door. That’s where they lived. They started adding on to it,” Jackson said.
“When they had four daughters, and by the time I came along, the house was a lot bigger.” But he still had to sleep in the hallway until he was ten years old, and his older sister moved out to attend college.