Samantha Bumgarner

"Aunt" Samantha Bumgarner (October 31, 1878 – December 24, 1960), born Sarah Samantha Biddix in Tennessee, was an American early country and folk music performer and singer from Dillsboro, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Hazleton "Haz" Biddix, a locally known fiddler, who bought her her first 5-string banjo. She won much praise for her work with the fiddle and banjo. In 1902, at the age of 23, she married a 40-year-old man named Carson "Carse" Bumgarner, who encouraged her musical career, and bought her a fiddle.