In SING YOUR HEART OUT COUNTRY BOY! Roy Acuff says the reference to a DADDY CLAXTON in Wabash Cannonball, which also happns to by his middle name..is only a coincidence..His father named him after Dr. P. T. Claxton, a prominent teacher and lecturer at Austin Peay College. On the day Roy was born, Dr. Claxton had given a lecture in Roy's hometown and Roy's father was so impressed, he named Roy after him...