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Jul 22, 1850
Songwriter Stephen Foster marries Jane McDowell in Pennsylvania. His songs will be sung by the likes of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and Ray Whitley in numerous movies. He also becomes the subject of a 2004 tribute album, "Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs Of Stephen Foster"
May 14, 1881
Despite a family war that included 10 dead relatives, a home destroyed by fire and a stolen pig, Johnse Hatfield and Nancy McCoy are married. The phrase "feudin' like the Hatfields and McCoys" will appear in Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)"
Jun 9, 1894
Country pioneer Fiddlin' John Carson marries Jenny Scoggins in Georgia
Jun 22, 1906
"Who's Sorry Now?" songwriter Ted Snyder marries French actress Hope Snyder
Aug 1, 1911
Playwright Maxwell Anderson marries fellow University of North Dakota student Margaret Haskett. He composes "September Song," a Broadway song that's eventually revived for country fans by Willie Nelson
Jun 18, 1915
A.P. Carter marries Sara Dougherty, uniting two of the three performers who will comprise The Carter Family, in Clinch Mountain, Virginia
May 1, 1917
Jimmie Rodgers marries his first wife, Stella Kelley, in Lexington, Mississippi, less than four months after meeting her
Jun 30, 1917
Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel marries Merle Estella Butcher in Hutchinson, Kansas. He assembles western swing's Light Crust Doughboys in Fort Worth several years later while working as a sales executive for Burrus Mills
Nov 10, 1918
Ernest Stoneman marries Hattie Frost at the Methodist Church in Galax, Virginia. Many of their children unite under "Pop"'s lead to form The Stoneman Family
Mar 24, 1919
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong marries Daisy Parker. In 1930, he participates in Jimmie Rodgers' session for "Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standin' On The Corner)"
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