RARE! Elvis Presley's Cousin Sheriff Harold Ray Presley Signed FDC

  
"Elvis Presley's Cousin" Sheriff Harold Ray Presley Hand Signed First Day Cover. This is one of the few known signatures of Elvis Presley's cousin.

July 6, 2001 was the. He attended local schools, but dropped out of school in the tenth grade. In 1968 he was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam in the Twenty-ninth General Support Group. After serving four years, he received an. Harold Presley was married, and had two sons and a daughter.

Presley joined the sheriff's department in September 1987 as a narcotics officer. In 1993 he was elected sheriff of Lee County. During his tenure as sheriff, Presley received numerous awards including the. And the "Best of the Best Officers" for five years.

Perceiving a need for battling both the demand and supply of illegal drugs, Mr. Presley initiated the DARE Program in local schools to educate young people, several. In the jail to help recovering addicts, and a tough approach to law enforcement regarding illegal drug sales and use.

He provided GED classes for training and testing inmates; he also started a work-center program for the inmates in his jail. Presley was as famous for stopping the drug trade and drug traffic in.

Was for chasing down the. Presley died in the early morning hours of July 6, 2001, in a shootout with kidnapping suspect Billy Ray Stone (who kidnapped and killed Charlene Wright). The suspect had fled the scene of a roadblock and exchanged shots with pursuing officers. He managed to elude officers during a foot chase after crashing his vehicle. Later in the evening, Sheriff Presley received a call from Fellowship Road homeowner Robert Norris whose dogs were barking. Sheriff Harold Ray Presley, Deputy Jack Tate and Norris all enter a building behind the house. Following a gun battle, Presley pushed Deputy Tate clear of gunfire and was struck six times, mortally injured. He fired back at Stone, killing him with one shot. Wright died the following day from her injuries. Harold Ray Presley was the uncle of. 1993 First Round Draft Pick.