Museum honors short life of country music legend

Jackie Sheckler Finch 
Small Newspaper Group

Slumped in the back seat of a baby blue Cadillac speeding through a dark night, Hank Williams died New Year's Day, 1953.

He was 29 years old.

The country music legend was on his way to a concert in Canton, Ohio. Somewhere in West Virginia, Williams' young driver became worried about the lifeless body draped in a navy-blue overcoat. By then, it was too late.

Carried into an emergency room, Williams was pronounced dead on Jan. 1, 1953. His heart had given out.

Jackie Sheckler Finch 
Small Newspaper Group

Slumped in the back seat of a baby blue Cadillac speeding through a dark night, Hank Williams died New Year's Day, 1953.

He was 29 years old.

The country music legend was on his way to a concert in Canton, Ohio. Somewhere in West Virginia, Williams' young driver became worried about the lifeless body draped in a navy-blue overcoat. By then, it was too late.

Carried into an emergency room, Williams was pronounced dead on Jan. 1, 1953. His heart had given out.