Sutton, who authored a book about his life, "Me and My Likker," pleaded guilty in April to illegally producing distilled spirits and being a felon in possession of a handgun. He was pronounced dead in the Cocke County Baptist Hospital emergency room shortly before 6 p.m., Jarnagin said. Sheriff's Detective Bryan Murr said Sutton was found in his car by his wife Monday afternoon on his property in the Parrottsville community, about 50 miles east of Knoxville. An autopsy was performed at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning was suspected. "Well, he would tell you that it was because he broke one of those popcorn-making machines at a bar," she said.Ĭocke County Coroner Terry Jarnagin said Tuesday there was no evidence of foul play in "Popcorn" Sutton's death. "I don't sound like them, and don't have the same cultural experiences, but I am extremely proud of that heritage." "I learned so much about him without going straight to him by going through the backways, and I found wonderful people with wonderful stories," she said. When she grew up, she used her skills as a historian and genealogist to learn the story of his life as others told it. Who knows why? But I learned enough about him writing this book to be at peace with this." "I wanted to meet him, but I don't think he wanted to meet me. "We hadn't been in the same room together since I was a young'un," she said. As much as his passing, she also mourns the fact that she had not seen him in years. She and her dad spoke on the telephone occasionally. Sky Sutton grew up in New England, where her mother's family is from. Now, her book, "Daddy Moonshine: The Story of Marvin ?Popcorn' Sutton," will have to be revised to include details of his death. On Monday, she delivered to a printer her soon-to-be-self-published book about her father. "Those factors gave Marvin the strength to die the way he lived: according to his own wishes and no one else's," she said. The looming prison term and a recent cancer diagnosis may have led him to his decision. He always lived a death-before-dishonor kind of life." "Nobody was going to tell him what to do," said daughter Sky Sutton, who lives in Northampton, Mass. The legendary Appalachian moonshiner apparently took his own life Monday by carbon monoxide poisoning ? days before he was to report to prison. On the day Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton's life ended, a daughter he had not seen since childhood was making him immortal.
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