STONEMAN, ERNEST POP
(1893–1968)
STONEMAN, ERNEST POP (b. Monarat, Va., May 25, 1893–June 14, 1968) One of the first country artists to record, Ernest Stoneman was also one of those who remained on the scene the longest, returning as the leader of The Stoneman Family Band in the 1950s and 1960s, until his death in 1968. Hailing from a musical family in western Virginia, Stoneman was a carpenter by trade and a musician by avocation. By his twenties he could play the GUITAR, autoharp, mouth harp (or harmonica), and Jew's harp…