January 13, 1864---Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

JANUARY 13, 1864:            

Stephen Foster, the Pennsylvania-born composer of such songs as “Suwanee,” “Camptown Races,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” and “Oh! Susannah” dies at age 38 in Bellevue Hospital, New York, from complications due to alcoholism. 

Crystal Gayle sings "My Old Kentucky Home"