MERLE HAGGARD WAS BORN IN A RAILROAD BOXCAR IN OILDALE, CALIFORNIA, AND DIED SEVENTY-NINE YEARS LATER TO THE DAY. HE WAS NOT BURIED THERE. HE NEVER MOVED BACK. IT WAS THE BOXCAR THAT LEFT. Merle Haggard died on April 6, 2016, of complications from pneumonia, at his ranch in Palo Cedro, California. It was his 79th birthday. The world remembered "Okie From Muskogee," "Mama Tried," "Sing Me Back Home" — and the man who wrote them after watching Johnny Cash play San Quentin in 1958 from a folding ch