 Victory, in Pulaski County, Kentucky, a part of Appalachia.He was a younger half-brother to his father's first child and the oldest of five sons and three daughters (one of which died in infancy) born to Mayhue H. Garrison and his second wife, Shelta Harriet Sears Garrison.While he grew up farming and timbering to help his family subsist, he also completed a basic education despite the Great Depression.