by Eva Nichols

Created on: July 18, 2009

Martha Faye lived her life in despair; she has seven children four boys, and three girls. Her husband Kenneth Earl was on death row for killing a convenience clerk while he and three other men tried to rob him. Three of her children are doing life in prison without parole. Thomas Ray and Kenneth Earl Jr her two oldest sons were drug dealers and gang members, they were lucky not to get death for their crimes. One night they went on a crime spree shooting other rival gang members. During the shooting three innocent people were killed, two of the victims were children. The third victim was the mother of the two children; the three innocent victims died in the crossfire at a public park one sunny day. Martha Faye oldest daughter Rachel was a victim of domestic violence, she shot her abusive husband to death. At her trial, she stated to the court that she killed her husband in self-defense. A jury did not believe her, so she was sentence to life without parole also.

Martha Faye's daughter had four children; they are now living in the house with her and her four other children. Martha Faye works three jobs to keep a roof over her family's head. She knows she qualified for public assistants; however, she refuses to take any charities from the government. Her remaining young four children and her grand children are depending on her to guide them in the right direction. Although she is a proud person and do not want any kind of charity. Her income level forces her to live in a government subsided apartment in the city of Detroit, Michigan. The apartment is located in a bad section of the city where the average income level reaches not above thirty thousand a year. In order not to have her four younger kids and grandchildren to inherited the same misfortune as their other relatives who are in prison. She must get her family out of the crime-infested surrounding they currently live in.

Martha Faye opens up a checking and saving account at her bank. Every payday she puts at least, two hundred dollars back for her a down payment for a house in a better neighbor. It is a real sacrifice to put that much back, but she is more determined to get out of the ghetto. Two of her youngest kids Mary Lee and Patrick are on the honor roll at their high school. She is very proud of what they have accomplished. They both want to go to college one day; they both promised her that they will make her proud of them. Martha Faye prays a lot to God to help her get her family a

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