{"id":1542,"date":"2026-01-11T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:16:04","slug":"anna-mae-bullock-tina-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/anna-mae-bullock-tina-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Mae Bullock \/ Tina Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Arguably, Haywood County&#8217;s most famous native was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush on November 26, 1939.&nbsp; Anna Mae&#8217;s parents separated when she was 11, leaving Anna Mae and her sister to be raised by their grandmother.&nbsp; At the age of 16, Anna Mae moved to St. Louis to live with her mother.&nbsp; There, Anna Mae Bullock met Ike Turner.&nbsp; As Tina Turner, she became a force in the global music industry before her death in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tina-turner-life-in-photos-6832844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view a <em>People magazine<\/em> retrospective, entitled &#8220;Tina Turner&#8217;s Life in Photos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westtnheritage.com\/tina-turner-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for a virtual visit to the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Museum &amp; Tina Turner Museum in Brownsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably, Haywood County&#8217;s most famous native was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush on November 26, 1939.&nbsp; Anna Mae&#8217;s parents separated when she was 11, leaving Anna Mae and her sister to be raised by their grandmother.&nbsp; At the age of 16, Anna Mae moved to St. Louis to live with her mother.&nbsp; There, Anna Mae Bullock met Ike Turner.&nbsp; As Tina Turner, she became a force in the global music industry before her death in 2025. Click here to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/anna-mae-bullock-tina-turner\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-artists-artisans","category-off-site-links","category-research-repositories-contacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}