Nannie Doss, the Grandma Who Giggled All the Way to Prison

Longing to Meet Mr. Perfect

In 1906, a cheerful girl by the name of Nancy Hazel came into the world. With a wide grin and a spirited laugh, she grew up in the rural countryside of Blue Mountain, Alabama, with her parents, James and Louisa, and her four siblings. Their days were spent tending the family farm and working on household chores, leaving the kids little room for proper education.

A portrait of Nancy Hazel.

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Years of hard labor made Nannie resent her father, James, controlling, abusive, and hot-tempered. He robbed her of proper schooling and made her feel worthless if she wasn’t out in the field working. As the years went by, dreams of meeting the right man who would help her escape her father’s suffocating grip was all she could think about.

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