HILTONS, Va. – Grandpa Jones often referred to folks with distinction as the flower of the flock. He may well have said such in regards to Maybelle Carter. Carter, who died in 1978 at age 69, would ...
The song was passed down from generation-to-generation, without the benefit of the written word. 'Wildwood Flower' In 1928, the Carter family from Poor Valley, in southwest Virginia, traveled to an ...