![]() ![]() ![]() Stevie and Jimmie on the front porch of their Oak Cliff home, with Martha watching over them. (Courtesy Joe Allen Cook Family Collection) His father died when Jim was seven, on the eve of the Great Depression.īig Jim and Martha Vaughan. He grew up a sharecropper’s son, picking cotton in Rockwall County, thirty miles east of Dallas, the youngest of eight children. Their tenuous grip on working-class stability was a big step up from Big Jim’s childhood. Their mother and father, Martha Cook Vaughan and Jimmie “Big Jim” Vaughan, had been married since January 1950 and were striving to establish themselves as part of the growing postwar middle class. Stephen Ray Vaughan was born October 3, 1954, in Dallas, Texas, three and a half years after his brother, Jimmie Lawrence. Baby blues: Stevie at seven months, playing in his crib. ![]()
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