Notes for Kenneth Jackson Cunningham: Kenneth Jackson Cunningham Born 3/18/1911 the th child and the th son of Hose Walter Cunningham and Linda Elizabeth Underwood Cunningham was probably the most musically inclined of the Cunningham Family taking after his father Hose Walter Cunningham who was a known banjo picker and the banjo which Hose picked was still in the Cunningham family as of the year 200 where it eventually came to Jesse Lee Valentine Hose' great grandson whose mother was Wilma jean Cunningham Valentine Stafford Cooper Moss Denton, who was Hose' grandaughter.
Kenneth was an accomplished musician on the guitar and played all his life up until his death, he lost a finger somewhere in the mid 1960's or 1970's which forced him to have to lay the guitar flat aon his lap and to chord it like a steel guitar, but nothing could stop hiom from playing he loved it.
It was rumored and Kenneth attested to the fact that he wrote the song The Wabash Cannonball, which made Roy Acuff famous who was an american icon in country music from Maynardville, TN. The story goes that Kenneth and his other brother Arlie Dartis Cunningham were playing country music with Roy Acuff before Roy was well known back in the 1930's and they were traveling to nightspots and bars across america and got in to Colorado somewhere and got into a brawl of sorts and got put in jail and had to call home to Tennessee to get their parents to wire them money to come home on, thus ending their music careers of which Roy Acuff continued and became very famous.
There was a time in the early years when Kenneth and Arlie were drinking and made a bet with a man about the presidential election ( these guys were devout democrats) on who would win the presidential election, the bet was that the loser would pull the winner in a coaster wagon all the way to Washington, DC and it was thought to just be a tale until Kenneth died and his youngest sister Ruth Cunningham McGill came to the Weaver Funeral home carrying the actual newspaper article now archived in Kenneths file from the Knoxville News Sentinel showing Kenneth sitting in a coaster wagon, with Arlie standing by and the other guy wearing a sign saying " Truman made a mule out of me" and a company in Knoxville, TN called The Spence Shoe Company on Gay Street gave the man a pair of shoes to wear on the journey.
More About Kenneth Jackson Cunningham: Burial: Knoxville, TN. Social Security Number: 411-14-8401.
Children of Kenneth Jackson Cunningham and Buena (Billie) Elizabeth Robinson are:
Kenneth Jackson Cunningham (b. March 18, 1911, d. August 29, 1993)
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