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  • Mar 10, 1956
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, is a guest on NBC-TV's "The Big Surprise." The game show, taped one week earlier, begins a five-week winning streak for Stoneman, who earns $10,000 by answering trivia questions
    Apr 13, 1968
    The Stoneman Family performs four shows in the Texas Panhandle. The third, in Dumas, proves to be the final concert of Ernest "Pop" Stoneman's life
    Apr 15, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, enters the Vanderbilt Medical Center. One week later, he has two-thirds of his stomach removed in surgery
    Apr 22, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has two-thirds of his stomach, plus his gall bladder, removed at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville.
    May 16, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has his second intestinal surgery in less than a month at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center
    Jun 11, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman has surgery for the third time in two months at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center. He dies three days later
    Jun 14, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman dies in Nashville. A country recording pioneer, he organized his children into a group, The Stoneman Family, earning a CMA award a year before his death. He enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008
    Feb 28, 1989
    Dean Stoneman, brother of The Stoneman Family, dies in Lanham, Maryland
    Apr 10, 1990
    Billy Stoneman, a non-performing brother of the members of The Stoneman Family, dies in Carmody Hills, Maryland
    Sep 14, 2001
    Eddie Stoneman dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Charles County, Maryland. The son of country pioneer Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, he played at times with his siblings in the Stoneman Family, though he chose to earn his living via more stable means

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