Today I learned the driver for Hank Williams’ last ride was an Auburn student

I inspected a house not too far from what is locally referred to as the "Lynching Museum."

The owner was sitting on the front porch when I arrived. After a few minutes of telling me he was born on that street, married at the church on that street and now owned fifteen houses there ...He asked ..."Want to know the importance of this house?" "OK"

The house was built by a Doctor. His office was upstairs, the family lived downstairs. He sold the house to a Piano Teacher. I took the house back to it's original floor plan. ...The Piano Teacher had closed in part of the open porch. Her piano is in the Montgomery Museum. Guess who learned to play piano exactly where you are sitting?

I have no idea

Hank Williams was her student. He loved that teacher. After going on the road and tour. He wrote her every other day. He sent her billboards where ever he played. He also wrote music and left notebooks on unrecorded and unfinished music. Eventually she retired, lost her sight and then her hearing. She went nuts and concluded her days in a nursing home.

An Italian Family bought the house. The wife hated Hank Williams. There was a second floor closet no one could get into. The door had swelled and was jammed into the door frame. The best carpenters tried to remove the door. One winter evening the door popped open. In the closet was every notebook, every billboard and every letter sent to the piano teacher.

That family hated Hank so much, they gathered everything and set it at the curb for the trash collectors to pick up. All that history and those folks threw it all out.

That was a very common practice by big name headliners back then. George Jones was also well known for this.

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Just before sunrise on New Year's Day over 50 years ago, a sleek baby-blue Cadillac roared up to the rural Oak Hill, W.Va., hospital in the cold Appalachian darkness. The driver was just 17, exhausted and scared. The passenger was barely 29 and dead.

At the wheel was Charles Carr, a college freshman on Christmas break from Auburn. The man in the back seat was singer-songwriter Hank Williams Sr.

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That's really interesting. I have lived in Montgomery for over 50 years and never heard that part of the story.

I was never a country music fan, but I always loved the stories about HW. There's a lot of them for someone who died at 29.

thanks...This beats talking about backup QBs and coaches fans never really liked, especially when they lay eggs like Saturday. :)