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1. Merle Haggard was born in a converted Santa Fe Railroad boxcar

Fri Mar 16, 2018, 04:30 PM

Mar 2018

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His father, James Francis Haggard, and his mother, Flossie Mae, moved to California from their home in Checotah, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression, after their barn burned in 1934.

They settled in an apartment in Bakersfield, CA., where James Haggard started working for the Santa Fe Railroad.

A woman who owned a boxcar in Oildale, a nearby town, asked Haggard's father about the possibility of converting the boxcar into a house.
James remodeled the boxcar, and soon after moved in, also purchasing the lot, where Merle Ronald Haggard was born on April 6, 1937.
The property was eventually expanded by building a bathroom, a second bedroom, a kitchen, and a breakfast nook in the adjacent lot.

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