Background
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1893, spent most of her life in Los Angeles and died in Salt Lake City, Utah October 18, 1972.
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1893, spent most of her life in Los Angeles and died in Salt Lake City, Utah October 18, 1972.
This is not the Gladys Rich that wrote American Lullaby. (Salt Lake Tribune Oct20,1972)
Rich was born in Decatur County, Georgia on March 21, 1904. The daughter of Euzema (father) and Menla (mother) Rich, Gladys was raised on the family farm.
The seventh of nine children, Gladys attended high school and lived with her extended family through the beginning of her life.
She lived with the new couple in Union County, New Jersey until 1931. During that time, she took a job as a salesperson in a local department store.
She died on July 30, 1994, in Orlando, Florida. She was later buried in Berkshire County, Pennsylvania and is interred there in Pleasant View Cemetery.