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Dec 15, 1891A.P. Carter is born in Maces Spring, Virginia. Along with his wife, Sara, and her cousin, Maybelle, The Carter Family becomes a pioneering force in country music, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970Jul 21, 1899Sara Carter is born in Flat Woods, Virginia. With husband A.P. Carter and cousin Maybelle Carter, she founds The Carter Family, which becomes one of country music's early success stories behind such titles as "Keep On The Sunny Side" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken." They join the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970Jun 18, 1915A.P. Carter marries Sara Dougherty, uniting two of the three performers who will comprise The Carter Family, in Clinch Mountain, VirginiaJul 2, 1923Janette Carter is born in Maces Spring, Virginia. The daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter, of The Carter Family, she sings with June Carter, Johnny Cash and Connie Smith on "Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash"Feb 27, 1927A.P. and Sara Carter, members of The Carter Family, have a son, Joe Carter, in Maces Spring, VirginiaFeb 20, 1939Sara Carter, of The Carter Family, marries Coy Bayes, a cousin of her ex-husband A.P. Carter, in Brackettville, TexasNov 7, 1960A.P. Carter dies in Kingsport, Tennessee. With his wife Sara and her cousin, Maybelle Carter, The Original Carter Family became one of the genre's pioneering groups following a key 1927 recording session. They join the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970Nov 18, 1970Maybelle and Sara Carter perform "You Are My Flower" on ABC-TV's "The Johnny Cash Show." Cash and Mama Cass Elliot cover "Act Naturally." Also aboard are The Statler Brothers, Lorne Greene and Kris Kristofferson, who sings "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down"Jan 8, 1979Sara Carter dies in Lodi, California. She was a member of The Carter Family, which recorded such classics as "Wildwood Flower" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" and entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970Mar 2, 2005Joe Carter, the son of Carter Family founders A.P. and Sara Carter, dies of pancreatic cancer at his home in Virginia. He is believed to have been the last living person present at the landmark Bristol sessions of August 1927
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