Elden Checketts Dattage returned to his Heavenly Father on September 7, 2023 after a yearlong battle with Multiple Myeloma. He passed away peacefully at home in Providence, Utah surrounded by
I have a friend who grew up the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi County. He likes to talk about the culture shock that would occur decades ago when traveling down U.S. 61, also known as the Blues Highway. After passing dozens of sharecropper shacks, motorists would enter the company town of Wilson, shaded by majestic cottonwood trees. Its downtown businesses were housed in buildings designed in the English Tudor style.