One of country's greatest legends - that Loretta Lynn was married at 13 - has been shot down by a new report that the Coal Miner's Daughter, believed to be 77, is really three years older than she claims to be. Combing through the records at the state Office of Vital Statistics in Frankfort, Ky., and checking the records of relatives', the Associated Press reports that Lynn was born April 14, 1932, in the Bluegrass State's Johnson County and is actually 80. As was memorably told in her bestselling 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter, which then became a 1980 box-office hit that won a Best Actress Oscar for leading lady Sissy Spacek,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
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