John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson

"Sonny Boy" Williamson (1914 - 1948), the music innovator responsible for the acceptance of the harmonica as an authentic blues tool, is buried in old Blair's Chapel CME Cemetery, 5 miles southwest. The most influential blues harmonica player of his ...

John Williamson

1846 - 1911

Former slave. Member, legislature, six terms; newspaper publisher & advocate of education. Grave is 1/2 mile west.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and Mineral Springs Road, on the right when traveling south on South Main ...