Country music star Loretta Lynn dies at age 90

FILE PHOTO: Musicians Kacey Musgraves and Loretta Lynn perform "You're Lookin' at Country" during the 48th Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, Tennessee November 5, 2014. REUTERS/Harrison McClary (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) (CMA - SHOW)

, (Reuters) - Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars and a leading feminist, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, her family said on Twitter.

Lynn died at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, the family said in a statement posted on Twitter.