Jesse Garon Presley

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Jesse Garon Presley (born and died January 8, 1935) was the identical twin brother of the American singer Elvis Presley.

His parents were Vernon Elvis Presley (1916-1979) and Gladys née Gladys Love Smith (1912-1958), and he was born in a shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi. Noted Presley biographer Peter Guralnick wrote that he was still-born.

Jesse Garon Presley was buried in a shoebox in an unmarked grave in the Priceville Cemetery in Tupelo. His parents could not pay the $10 doctor bill.

In 2006, musician Scott Walker released the song, "Jesse" on his album The Drift that uses Jesse and Elvis to comment on the September 11, 2001 attacks.[1]

In Unmanned, the first arc of the comic book Y: The Last Man, the antagonist Yorick Brown discusses Jesse briefly, using his death as an example of the power of destiny ("Why does fate choose one man over another, that sorta thing...?"). This is a counterpoint to the character's later status as the last human male on the planet.