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Amy Sumler
The city of Memphis approved street-renaming for a street in the honor of Thornton. The street was changed to Adolph "Young Dolph" Thornton Jr. Avenue, which is located on the intersection of Dunn Avenue and Airways Boulevard, just east of Castilia Heights (where Dolph was raised) and not far from where Dolph was killed.[67]
\"It's been extremely difficult just having to pick up the pieces and to find the strength for my children,\" Jaye told ABC News Live's Linsey Davis in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. \"Now that he's no longer here, it's just very tough for me to be strong for them and be strong for myself because he -- you know, Adolph was my soulmate.\"
Young Dolph, whose given name was Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, on Nov. 17 while visiting Makeda's Homemade Butter Cookies, a bakery the rapper was known to frequent. He was 36.
"Tell yo momma you love her while she here/Tell yo pops that you love him while he here/Tell yo homeboy you love while he here/One day you here, next day you gone, for real," he raps in the chorus over a Drumma Boy beat.
A street sign is unveiled to honor slain rapper Young Dolph, whose real name is Adolph Thornton Jr., on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. Police said Young Dolph was killed Nov. 17 while buying cookies at his favorite bakery. No arrests have been made. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz).
One of the more melodic songs from Young Dolph, this song highlights goals one might want to stake out while one is still here on Earth. Indeed, the man worked hard and got what he could before his life was tragically cut short.
That there were some men in uniforms who might be classedas brutes is not to be denied; we are thankful the number wascomparatively small. In the campaign into Maryland in 1862, ourregiment was in the division commanded by the gallant Gen. D.H. Hill, who held the mountain passes against overwhelmingnumbers. My younger brother, James Albert Sherrill, who hadbeen with us only six months, fell dangerously wounded just atthe time the command was given to fall back. Of course he fellinto the hands of the enemy; there, lying weltering in his blood,the enemy came on him, and instead of ministering to his wants,a brute in human form in uniform took his bayonet and stabbedthe poor boy to death. I did not see this, but Alfred Sigmon, ofCatawba County, who was also wounded, was an eyewitnessto the tragedy. I give this incident as it came near to me; manyothers just as cruel might be given. It would not do to holdGeneral McClelland or his true soldiers responsible for theconduct of a drunken, cowardly brute. The Union army wasafflicted by having foreign soldiers who could not speak theEnglish language. We have met the Union soldiers when manyof them were so drunk they could hardly tell what they weredoing.
FOLEY: Well there was a guy, there was a guy from St. Augustine that was a retired military guy that wanted to run that did run, he filed to run. And he claimed that he had some pictures of Charlie in an unflattering whatever. And . . . L. G. Moore* and I went over to St. Augustine County to see if we could handle that situation. And I guess we were somewhat successful. I guess I probably shouldn't say more about that. But that was a way of forcing that guy out of the campaign. He would have been the gun-nut candidate if he would have been stayed in the race. [*L. G. Moore, son of L. L. Moore, was born about 1936. He attended Central Heights High School and Harvard Labor Management School and married Jerry Box of Nacogdoches, Texas. In 1972, while serving as a legislative representative for the International Union of Operating Engineers, he was chosen for the Texas Constitutional Revision Commission. The purpose of the commission was to study the need for constitutional change and to report recommendations to the Constitutional Convention (63rd Legislature). L. G. Moore became chairman of the Education Committee and was regional director of the International Union of Operating Engineers, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Among other things, Moore was Charlie's labor contact and supporter. Moore's archival collection is also housed at the East Texas Research Center at Stephen F. Austin State University.]
BREMER: Oh, I'm sorry. Ran out, ran out of tape, we will have to wait a minute while we get everything ready here. [Background noise of new tape being inserted, a long pause to change tape for recording.] You said he stopped wanting to be congressman when it wasn't fun anymore.
FOLEY: Oh yeah, I you know, because he represented us and when you represent people you are more interested and he was interested. And you might say he was interested because he wanted to move up and that's true too but while he was here he performed.
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