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Ellaraino was born on 7 October 1938 in Madison County, Texas, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Sneakers (1992), Get Smart (1965) and House Party (1990). She was married to Edwards, ?. She died on 10 March 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- David Schultz was born on 1 June 1955 in Madison County, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor, known for WWF Championship Wrestling (1972), AWA All-Star Wrestling (1972) and Wrestling at the Chase (1959). He has been married to Sarah Winston since 14 January 2007. He was previously married to Mary Granger.
- Duke Everts was born on 28 September 1928 in New Douglas, Madison County, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Play Misty for Me (1971). He died on 15 February 2010 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- Mark W. Clark was born on 1 May 1896 in Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York, USA. He was married to Mary Lou Millard and Louise Maurine Doran. He died on 17 April 1984 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
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Jan C. Gabriel was born in 1940 in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Battle of the Monster Trucks (2008), Ghost Cars at the Winchester Mystery House (2017) and Return of the Monster Trucks (2016). He died on 10 January 2010 in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois, USA.- Tammy Lohr was born on 10 December 1967 in Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA. She died on 2 August 1992 in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA.
- John Paul Jones was born on 27 February 1886 in Madison County, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Bachelor Mother (1932), Terry and the Pirates (1940) and The Shadow (1940). He died on 3 June 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- William J. Stone was born on 7 May 1848 in Madison County, Kentucky, USA. He died on 14 April 1918 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Andrew Tribble was an experienced vaudevillian, working with Bert Williams and Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle in the Broadway hit "Shuffle Along" as well as a number of road shows,primarily working the towns and cities on the T.O. B. A. circuit. An experienced dancer, comedian, monologist and singer, he was best known for a routine where he portrayed a character named "Ophelia Snow," an old maid who was never able to get her man. He died of a stroke while playing in Baltimore, and was buried in Richmond, Indiana.
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Otha Turner was born in 1907 to Hollis and Betty Turner, both sharecroppers, in Jackson County, Mississippi.
Turner's father left town shortly after he was born, leaving his mother to raise him and his siblings alone. He grew up helping his mother in the fields, and was often put in charge of taking care of the rest of his family. His life of hard work began early, chopping cotton and plowing the fields as a young boy.
Turner demonstrated an unusual musical ability as a teenager. He started playing on the tin tub when he was 15 years old and began playing the drums at the age of 17. He also taught himself how to make and play a fife during these years.
Turner got his start as a performer by playing the fife and drums at local picnic celebrations. Money he raised playing at these gatherings enabled him to buy the farm where he still lives in the Gravel Springs Community outside Como, Mississippi (pop. 789) and where he and his wife Ada "Moochie" Turner raised four children.
At 94 years old, Turner was the oldest (and perhaps only) living African-American fife player in America. He was also the leader of the Rising Star Fife and Drum Corps, the only Mississippi fife and drum corps band left in America. Today, this small band consists of his daughter, Bernice, his grandsons, his granddaughter, and his nephew.
Until the day he died, he still farmed, raised horses, hogs, cattle, watermelon, black-eyed peas, corn, etc. He hosted an annual Labor Day picnic featuring barbecued goat, barbecued pork, blues, and most importantly, fife and drum music.
On most any summer afternoon, visitors could have received a private backyard performance by Turner and his band, as well as a lesson in fife making. Mr. Turner first found cane growing wild in the "bottom land" of his farm. He then cut the cane into pieces. Next, using a hot poker, Turner burned holes into cane, creating the finished fife.
Turner's unique style of fife and drum music has received national accolades and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage award, the Smithsonian Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Charlie Patton Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band has become a staple at several blues festivals including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival, the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival, and opening each day of the annual Chicago Blues Festival. He was perhaps proudest of his recent performance at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium, where he, his band, family and friends recreated a rural Mississippi "picnic" on the stage and received more than one standing ovation.
He has been featured on ABC's "Good Morning America" and NPR's "All Things Considered"; in The New York Times, The Oxford American, Blues Access, Living Blues; Billboard Magazine; and the French magazine "Vibrations." His recently released first CD - at the tender age of 90- "Everybody's Hollerin' Goat" on Birdman records was recently named