From Sharecropping to Multi-Million Dollar Empire
Born in Pike County, Alabama, Eula was the third of five children. With only a sixth-grade education, she grew up in poverty, working the land behind a mule-drawn plow on a sharecropper’s farm.
After marrying at 19 and moving to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she started baking and selling sweet potato pies and took in foster children to earn money. Her work ethic and faith in God fueled her success—she purchased her first property in 1944 and grew her holdings to 33 rental units in just nine years.