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Drew was born to Richard Harmon Drew, Sr., and the former Margaret Taylor Elam (1919–1977), a native of Mansfield in DeSoto Parish who grew up in Shreveport and [[Baton Rouge]]. Margaret Drew was a direct descendant of [[U.S. President]] [[Zachary Taylor]] through Taylor's son, [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] Richard Taylor. Mrs. Zachary Taylor was also named Margaret.<ref>''Minden Herald'' and ''Webster Review,'' May 2, 1957, p. 8.</ref>

Drew was born to Richard Harmon Drew, Sr., and the former Margaret Taylor Elam (1919–1977), a native of Mansfield in DeSoto Parish who grew up in Shreveport and [[Baton Rouge]]. Margaret Drew was a direct descendant of [[U.S. President]] [[Zachary Taylor]] through Taylor's son, [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] Richard Taylor. Mrs. Zachary Taylor was also named Margaret.<ref>''Minden Herald'' and ''Webster Review,'' May 2, 1957, p. 8.</ref>

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Margaret Drew's paternal grandfather was [[Joseph Barton Elam, Jr.]] (1821-1885), the first [[mayor]] of Mansfield, a state representative, and a [[U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.. Her uncle, Charles Wheaton Elam, was also a state representative and a founder of the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center. Margaret and Harmon Drew, Sr., were married in an [[Episcopal]] Church in Baton Rouge on [[Pearl Harbor]] Day 1940, exactly a year before the attack on the [[United States]] by the empire of [[Japan]]. Drew and his two sisters, Elizabeth Weaver and Caldwell Colvin, were reared, like their mother, as Episcopalians. The senior Drew, however, retained [[Presbyterian]] affiliation. Harmon and Jean Drew are members of St. John's Episcopal Church near their home though Jean was reared as a [[United Methodist]].

Margaret Drew's paternal grandfather was [[Joseph Barton Elam, Sr.]] (1821-1885), the first [[mayor]] of Mansfield, a state representative, and a [[U.S. Representative]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. Her uncle, Charles Wheaton Elam, was also a state representative and a founder of the [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center. Margaret and Harmon Drew, Sr., were married in an [[Episcopal]] Church in Baton Rouge on [[Pearl Harbor]] Day 1940, exactly a year before the attack on the [[United States]] by the empire of [[Japan]]. Drew and his two sisters, Elizabeth Weaver and Caldwell Colvin, were reared, like their mother, as Episcopalians. The senior Drew, however, retained [[Presbyterian]] affiliation. Harmon and Jean Drew are members of St. John's Episcopal Church near their home though Jean was reared as a [[United Methodist]].

In 1952, while speeding through Minden, the [[singer]] Lefty Frizzell, originally from Corsicana in Navarro County, [[Texas]], crashed his [[Cadillac]] into the Drew home. Drew, Jr,. slept through the mishap, but he recalls that his father having always thought that Frizzell had a "bad attitude"."<ref>Judge Harmon Drew, Jr., to Earlene Mendenhall Lyle, Lyle newsletter, May 4, 2008.</ref>​

In 1952, while speeding through Minden, the [[singer]] Lefty Frizzell, originally from Corsicana in Navarro County, [[Texas]], crashed his [[Cadillac]] into the Drew home. Drew, Jr,. slept through the mishap, but he recalls that his father having always thought that Frizzell had a "bad attitude"."<ref>Judge Harmon Drew, Jr., to Earlene Mendenhall Lyle, Lyle newsletter, May 4, 2008.</ref>​

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==Early years==

==Early years==