Tammy Wynette

Virginia Wynette Pugh was born in 1942 on a farm near Tremont and picked cotton on her grandparents' land, a job she later said she hated every minute of. She married at seventeen, had three daughters and was divorced in 1965. She trained as a beautician, worked in a Birmingham salon, and kept renewing her cosmetology license for the rest of her life. After a Birmingham television appearance she moved to Nashville in 1966, where producer Billy Sherrill signed her to Epic and gave her the name Tammy Wynette. She died in 1998, aged 55.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Elvis Presley Birthplace — 24 mi
  The two-room house in East Tupelo where Elvis Presley was born in 1935, with a museum and the church building the family attended, set near the vanished Black neighborhoods where he first heard the blues.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center — 26 mi
  The parkway's headquarters and official visitor center near Tupelo, with a film, a small museum of the Old Trace and the surviving New Deal houses of the Tupelo Homesteads.

More markers nearby

• The Chickasaw Nation — 1.9 mi
• Fulton — 8.8 mi
• Van Buren — 8.9 mi
• Itawamba Community College — 9.0 mi