Every story needs a beginning or a starting place.

Nellie Ellis Green was born on Halloween day, 31st of October 1905, in York, South Carolina.

At 19 Nellie married 23-year-old Alton Reid Freeman on 19 December 1925, in Charlotte, North Carolina,

After five months of marriage, Alton was done. He was leaving.  Packing up some of his stuff, He told Nellie he was leaving. Six days before Christmas. That's when it all went bad.