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    • Apr 3, 1958
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter has his right leg amputated mid-thigh at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Porter never writes a song again
    Aug 18, 1962
    Billboard reports former Johnny Horton guitarist Tommy Tomlinson has had one of his legs amputated 21 months after he was injured in the car crash that took Horton's life
    Jul 29, 1996
    Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, the husband of Loretta Lynn, is released from the hospital, days after having his right foot amputated, part of an ongoing battle with diabetes
    Apr 17, 2001
    Grand Ole Opry member Johnny Russell has both legs amputated below the knees, because of complications with diabetes, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville
    Dec 19, 2001
    Waylon Jennings' left foot is amputated in Phoenix as he battles diabetes
    Jan 18, 2002
    A year after he had one leg amputated, Dobro player Uncle Josh Graves has the other removed in surgery at the Tennessee Christian Medical Center in Madison
    Oct 25, 2004
    Margie Bowes has a foot amputated. The limb was severely injured in a 1995 car accident, and Bowes had undergone several surgeries on the foot in the interim
    Aug 18, 2012
    Highway 101 drummer Cactus Moser is injured when his motorcycle collides with an oncoming car near Hill City, South Dakota. His left leg is amputated as a result of the collision. Wife Wynonna Judd cancels a Canadian tour



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