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    • Dec 28, 1952
    Hank Williams gives his final performance, for 130 people at a holiday party for members of the Musicians' Union in Montgomery
    Jan 4, 1953
    Hank Williams' funeral draws more than 20,000 people in Montgomery, Alabama. A country choir led by Webb Pierce, Red Foley, Little Jimmy Dickens and Carl Smith performs "I Saw The Light." Ernest Tubb offers "Beyond The Sunset"
    Jan 6, 1953
    Catherine Yvonne Stone is born in Montgomery, Alabama. In a protracted legal dispute as an adult, she proves she's the daughter of Hank Williams, by Bobbie W. Jett. She subsequently uses the stage name Jett Williams
    Jan 8, 1953
    One week after the passing of a legend, Jack Cardwell records the tribute hit "The Death Of Hank Williams" in Mobile, Alabama
    Jan 17, 1953
    Less than two weeks after Hank Williams was interred at the Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, his coffin is dug up and moved to a new site
    Oct 28, 1953
    Songwriter Tommy Brasfield is born in Jasper, Alabama. He writes Barbara Mandrell's "Angel In Your Arms," Ronnie Milsap's "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me" and Earl Thomas Conley's "Holding Her And Loving You," among others
    Apr 14, 1954
    Singer/songwriter Pierce Pettis is born in DeKalb County, Alabama. He writes Garth Brooks' "You Move Me"
    Jun 30, 1954
    R.W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles, of The Blackwood Brothers, die in a plane crash in Clanton, Alabama. The group's "His Hand In Mine" is named one of country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Sep 21, 1954
    A 10-foot marble memorial is unveiled at the gravesite of Hank Williams in Montgomery, Alabama, following a parade in the late star's honor that draws 60,000 people. The marker bears the inscription "I Saw The Light"
    Sep 21, 1954
    Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow and Roy Acuff perform a three-hour show in Montgomery, Alabama, as the city spends the weekend saluting the late Hank Williams
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