Doc Watson

Doc Watson

male, 86 years old
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, born March 3, 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina, is a guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country,...
Horace Kephart

Horace Kephart

male, deceased (1931)
Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was an American travel writer and librarian, best known as the author of "Our Southern Highlanders", about his life in...
Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb

female, 61 years old
Sharyn McCrumb (born Sharyn Elaine Arwood February 26, 1948, Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American writer whose books celebrate the history...
Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

female, 63 years old
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated American country singer, songwriter, composer, author,...
Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn

female, 74 years old
Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1934) is an American country singer and was one of the leading country female vocalists during the 1960s...
Alvin York

Alvin York

male, deceased (1964)
Alvin Cullum York was a United States soldier, famous for his heroism in World War I. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a...
Dock Boggs

Dock Boggs

male, deceased (1971)
Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7,1898-February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of play, as...
Catherine Marshall

Catherine Marshall

female, deceased (1983)
Catherine Marshall (September 27, 1914 — March 18, 1983) was a Christian author and the wife of well-known Presbyterian minister Peter Marshall an...
Harriette Simpson Arnow

Harriette Simpson Arnow

female, deceased (1986)
Harriette Arnow was a U.S. novelist, claimed by both Kentucky and Michigan as a native daughter. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of...
Clarence Ashley

Clarence Ashley

male, deceased (1967)
Clarence "Tom" Ashley (September 29 1895 (or 1885?) - June 2 1967) was a 20th-century American clawhammer banjo player and singer. Born in Bristol,...