Blanket on the ground tammy wynette biography

Although she was born in the small town of Tremont in Itawamba County, Mississippi, Tammy Wynette – the future “First Lady of Country Music” – spent much of her childhood in Red Bay, just across the Alabama state line.

After her father’s death of a brain tumor when she only nine months old, young Virginia Wynette Pugh lived mostly with her maternal grandparents on a farm that spanned both sides of the Alabama-Mississippi border.

She often claimed that the state line ran right through their property, joking, “My top half came from Alabama and my bottom half came from Mississippi.”

Amid the drudgery of farm work, young “Nettie” (as she was called by her family and friends) taught herself to play the guitar, served as pianist at the Providence Baptist Church, sang in school programs and dreamed of becoming a star on the Grand Ole Opry.

Shortly before graduating from high school, she married Euple Byrd and gave birth to three children.

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