MURFREESBORO, TN - Phyllis Pugh is the oldest of six children, born and raised in Mississippi. Because her father was not in the picture, she was raised by a single mother, and the family of seven lived back and forth between their own home in Montrose, MS, and their grandmother’s home in Louin, MS, just a few miles up the road.
"We came up poor,” Pugh says. She was married, for the first time, at 18, and had two daughters, Erica and Elaina. “Those girls were .