Ed Haley

James Edward "Ed" Haley (1885 — February 3, 1951) was a blind professional American musician and composer. Ed Haley was born in August 1885 on the Trace Fork of Big Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia. His father, Thomas Milton Haley, was a well-known fiddler in the Guyandotte and Big Sandy Valleys. His grandfather, Benjamin R. Haley, was an active Unionist in the Big Sandy River Valley during the American Civil War, as well as a fiddler. Ed's mother, Imogene Mullins, was a daughter of Andrew Jackson and Chloe (Gore) Mullins, and a descendant of "Money Makin' Sol" Mullins, the famous counterfeiter of eastern Kentucky. Ed was an only child. Ed Haley contracted measles when he was about three years old, and subsequently lost his...