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Dolly Parton is notoriously proud of her Tennessee roots. She's been very open about growing up in a one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains as one of 12 children and how that influenced the person she is today. Despite her humble beginnings, she credits her parents Avie Lee Owens Parton and Robert Lee Parton with surrounding her with love and support as a child that ultimately led her down the road of fame.

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But that didn't stop Dolly from rising to fame in Nashville as a legendary country music singer and actress and never forgetting about her family members no matter how famous she got. Some of her siblings even regularly perform at her Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge. She was the daughter of a preacher and married Robert Lee Parton when she was just 16 years old.

She's also been credited as being one of the earliest musical influences for Dolly. When the future star was a young girl, her mother made her a handmade corncob doll. When she sat on the porch singing a song about it, Avie Lee quickly wrote down the lyrics to what would be her very first song, "Little Tiny Tasseltop. Lee Parton grew up in a family of farmers in Sevierville.

As was typical of the time, he needed to focus on helping with the family's farm instead of school.