On May 8, 1911, Julia gave brith to their eleventh child Robert Leroy Johnson in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. Robert lived with his step-father Charles in Memphis for some time where he developed a love for blues, but he soon moved back to the Delta to live with his mother and her husband Dusty Willis. Around age nineteen, Johnson married sixteen year-old Virginia Travis in Mississippi. She unfortunately passed away while giving birth. It has been stated that Robert was shamed by her family and blamed for giving in to secular music or as they called it, “the devil’s music”. Shortly after in 1930, Johnson would be introduced to the famous delta blues artist at the time, Son House. House recalls Robert playing the harmonica for him and that he was “pretty good”, however he told House that he had an interest in learning to play the guitar. Son House and his friend Willie Brown taught Johnson how to play the guitar, but his style was different. During the intermission of House and Brown’s shows, Robert would play their guitars and it was a strange sound that no one liked at first. In 1932, Johnson had played the guitar for House and Brown when they discovered his talent had evolved.