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Annie Mae Young was born in 1928 in Boykin, Alabama to Lula Pettway and Albert Pettway. At the time the place where Annie lived was originally called Primrose later then called Young's Place. The boss man that owned the land at the time name was Herbert Hall Wilkinson. They farmed cotton,corn, peas,sweet potatoes.She was taught to quilt when she was a child by her mother. She lived on the farm with her family and the 12 other children. Some of her brothers and sisters had to work the field but she was never asked to. She followed the knowledge and the tradition in her family and learned the craft at a young age. She was living with her mother when she started quilting. Her father would bring back cloth that was being given away in Camden. She would quilt with the clothes she received and didn't cut them or alter them in any way. She started altering and cutting the clothes when she was thirteen years old. She would tear up pant legs and dress tails to use the cloth to create, Annie Mae went to a school 8 miles away but, stop at 7th grade.

Annie Mae Weems got married at the age of 16 also the start of when she started raising children and working more in the fields. Annie and husband Lucius Young had nine children six boys and three girls. Annie lost her husband in a car crash in 1978.