According to the Washington Post, Lynn's family sent an Associated Press statement in which they verified that the singer passed away at her Tennessee home.
Although she was assured a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Lynn had a traumatic childhood during which she lived in extreme poverty
and came dangerously close to her away. She was born in 1935 and had seven siblings. She was from a coal-mining area of Kentucky.
The fact that Lynn married at age 13 and had a child at age 14 was perhaps the most surprising aspect of her early life. Lynn had four kids by the time she turned 18 and was a mother.
Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, Lynn's husband, was the one who actually gave her a guitar and encouraged her to pursue her musical and singing abilities.
Zero Records, a Canadian record company in Vancouver, signed Lynn in 1960. She and her husband ultimately decided to mail her records to radio stations across the nation