1922–1973
Big Chief

Introduction

Born: Oc­to­ber 31, 1922, Ty Ty, Geor­gia.

Died: Oc­to­ber 3, 1973, Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see (died of a heart at­tack at the Na­tion­al Quar­tet Con­ven­tion).

Buried: Fair­view Me­mo­ri­al Gar­dens, Stock­bridge, Georg­ia.

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Biography

Wetherington was a bass sing­er with the Gos­pel groups Sun­ny South Quar­tet, Me­lo­dy Mas­ters Quar­tet, and the States­men (1949).

He was in­duct­ed in­to the Gos­pel Mu­sic As­so­cia­tion Hall of Fame in 1977, and the South­ern Gos­pel Mu­sic As­so­cia­tion Hall of Fame in 1997.

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