Beschrijving
Eston Eugene Roberts was born in New Orleans, LA, on April 12, 1932, to Arthurlene
Sutton and Carl Daniel Roberts. His mother worked as a hotel maid and his father,
some years older than his wife, was a traveling magazine salesman who abandoned
his wife and two children in 1936. The family of three then relocated to Damascus,
GA, where they lived for a time with a great-uncle named Gary.
Within a year, Eston’s mother re-married, and the family moved to a large log
home on the edge of Hilburn Hammock in an adjoining county. In addition to his
stepfather’s parents, the house was already home to four siblings, and the addition
of three new family members made, understandably, a stressful situation. His
mother, essentially a city girl, was shown no sympathy for her lack of agricultural
competence, and the two older girls banded in tandem, forcing her to do their laundry.
It was no coincidence, given these pressures, that his mother began to suffer foaming-
at-the-mouth seizures, and he remembers retreating to the north end of the long
front porch and screaming \