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    • Oct 20, 1913
    Banjo-playing comic Louis Marshall Jones is born in Niagara, Kentucky. Under the stage name Grandpa Jones, he amasses 50 years as a Grand Ole Opry member and becomes a longtime cast member on the satirical TV show "Hee Haw"
    Feb 24, 1935
    Marshall Jones performs a show in Akron, which is caught by Bradley Kincaid. In short order, Kincaid brings Jones to Boston to perform on radio station WBZ, where he's renamed "Grandpa" Jones
    Apr 17, 1935
    Marshall Jones moves to Boston to work on radio station WBZ with Bradley Kincaid. Sounding older over the airwaves than is typical for a 21-year-old, he acquires the nickname "Grandpa" Jones
    Dec 8, 1939
    Grandpa Jones has a daughter, Marsha Marie Jones, with his first wife, the former Eulalia Marie Losher
    Sep 1, 1943
    Grandpa Jones and Merle Travis record the first music for Syd Nathan's new label, King Records, in Dayton, Ohio. They use assumed names to hide their identity from radio station WLW, which has them under contract
    Nov 15, 1943
    Sydney Nathan's King Records releases its first two singles, with the artists using pseudonyms: Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones are billed as The Sheppard Brothers, and a Travis solo disc is credited to Bob McCarthy
    Jan 6, 1946
    Grandpa Jones is discharged after a two-year stint in the Army
    Mar 16, 1946
    Grandpa Jones appears on the Grand Ole Opry stage for the first time, as a member of Pee Wee King's band
    Oct 14, 1946
    Grandpa Jones marries Ramona Riggins in Henderson, Kentucky
    Mar 28, 1947
    Having previously used a guitar on his recording sessions, Grandpa Jones holds his first session in Nashville, playing a banjo for the first time
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