Mae Glover

Born Sept 9, 1907 in Columbia, Tennessee, Lillie Mae Glover ran abroad in 1920 when she was just 13 to become listed on the Tom Simpson Journeying Medicine Display. Her dad was a preacher and she wished to sing the blues, in order that was that. She worked well in several street shows before getting in Memphis, Tennessee in the past due ’20s, learning to be a regular performer around the city’s famous Beale Road, where she was referred to as “mom of Beale Road.” She documented and performed under a number of different titles, including Lillian Mae Glover, Mae Glover, and Big Memphis Ma Rainey, the name under which she monitored a few edges for Sun Information in 1953. She passed away in 1985 at Tishomingo Region Medical center in Iuka, Mississippi at age 77.