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    • Jan 7, 1868
    Rebecca Bowers is born in Virginia. She gives birth to Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, one of country's first successful recording artists, and the leader of The Stoneman Family
    Jul 23, 1871
    Elisha Stoneman marries his first wife, Lauretta Montgomery. After her death, a second marriage yields Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, a pioneering country performer who founds The Stoneman Family
    Jul 7, 1888
    Lauretta Stoneman dies. Her widower, Elisha, re-marries three years later, and the new relationship produces Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, a significant early country recording artist who becomes the patriarch of The Stoneman Family
    Jul 16, 1891
    Widower Elisha Stoneman marries Rebecca Bowers in Virginia. The couple's first surviving son, Ernest Stoneman, becomes a country recording pioneer and founds the award-winning group The Stoneman Family
    May 25, 1893
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman is born in Monarat, Virginia. Among country's first successful recording artists in the 1920s, he later builds a band, The Stoneman Family, ultimately entering the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Dec 18, 1896
    Rebecca Stoneman dies while giving birth to her third son, Talmer. Her oldest son, Ernest, becomes one of country music's first recording successes and forms the award-winning Stoneman Family
    Sep 28, 1900
    Hattie Frost is born in Virginia. She marries Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, one of country music's first successful recording artists, and bears his children, many of whom unite with their father to form The Stoneman Family
    May 12, 1904
    Ernest Stoneman, founder of The Stoneman Family, acquires a stepmother when his father, Elisha, marries Susan Wells
    Aug 20, 1913
    Ernest Stoneman's father, Elisha, divorces his stepmother, Susan
    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
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