First Chapter: Fell In Love Too Fast and Too Hard
Loretta Lynn and Oliver Lynn’s love story had been dubbed one of the great legends in the history of country music.
Loretta Webb or more commonly and popularly known as Loretta Lynn, first met her husband Oliver “Mooney” Lynn at a pie auction in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. While the auction was mainly a fundraiser event for a local school, it was also some sort of matchmaking activity on the side.
Mooney was just fresh out from the Army after serving during World War II at the time. And he got clearly smitten with 15-year-old Loretta and her brunette beauty. He bid on her pie then walked her home. And everything just happened too fast – Loretta easily fell and fell too hard for Mooney who was not only a charmer but also had a reputation as a drinker and a womanizer.
Just a few months later, or most accounts say it was only after a month, Loretta agreed to marry Mooney despite her parent’s wishes not to. Mooney was 21 then, and the couple had a 7-year gap. Originally in Loretta Lynn’s book ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ she mentioned that she was just 13 when this happened, but the information was since corrected in 2012 after the Associated Press accessed her birth certificate.
Loretta and Mooney finally married on January 10, 1948. A year later, they moved to Custer, Washington, as Lynn explored better work opportunities.
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