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Aug 16, 1915
Georgia prisoner Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta for the alleged death of an employee. His controversial case spurred Fiddlin' John Carson to write "Little Mary Phagan," a significant song in his rise as a country pioneer
Dec 25, 1928
Twenty-four days after his birth, Irving Berlin Jr. dies in his Manhattan crib of a heart attack. The event sours Christmas for father Irving Berlin, who ironically is destined to write one of the holiday classics, "White Christmas"
Oct 26, 1929
Fiddlin' John Carson's 17-year-old son, John L. Carson, dies at Atlanta's Piedmont Sanitarium from tetanus and blood poisoning, picked up when he stepped on an infectious nail after the family's house had burned
Feb 1, 1930
Banjo player Smith Hammett is shot and killed by a gas station owner in Gaffney, South Carolina, after threatening the man and his customers with a knife. During his life, Hammett mentored Earl Scruggs, teaching the younger musician the three-finger style of picking that would bring Scruggs to national attention
Aug 16, 1930
Blind fiddler G.B. Grayson dies after an accident in which he was riding the sideboard of a car in Abingdon, Virginia. His "Ommie Wise" appears in the Country Music Foundation's ranking of the 500 greatest country singles
Dec 25, 1930
Fiddler Lowe Stokes is shot near Cartersville, Georgia. His right hand is so badly damaged that it is subsequently amputated. Stokes played on Gid Tanner & The Skiller Lickers' recording of "Soldier's Joy"
Jan 13, 1934
Skeeter Davis' grandfather, James Roberts, is murdered in Rising Sun, Indiana
Mar 31, 1934
During a 30-mile drive to appear on the Grand Ole Opry, dulcimer player Kitty Cora Cline witnesses a horrible auto accident. She vows to never again travel by car, ending the six-year Opry span of the show's first female soloist
Apr 13, 1936
Bandleader Milton Brown is injured when he crashes his car into a telephone pole alongside the Jacksboro Highway outside of Fort Worth, Texas, killing a 16-year-old female passenger. Five days later, he dies after a punctured lung leads to pneumonia
Aug 5, 1936
Governor Gene Talmadge, running for U.S. Senate, stumps in Monroe, Georgia, in his trademark red suspenders, with Fiddlin' John Carson providing musical entertainment. The same night, son Grady Carson shoots and kills his father-in-law
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