Gene Stewart

Gene Stewart was born in Carthage, Mississippi, and moved to Rayville at about four, learning guitar, singing and songwriting from his mother and cousins on the family farm. In high school he formed Gene Stewart and the Country Rebels, regulars at the Twin City Jamboree in West Monroe and the Auction Barn in Delhi. After Army service, with bands at Fort Hood and in Germany, he formed the Rockin' Rebels, opening for Jerry Lee Lewis. He recorded Rub It In for Camaro Records, wrote a song about Rayville, and later worked for the Postal Service and in real estate.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 15 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 17 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 19 mi
  A cypress lake inside the city limits of Monroe, run by the Fish and Wildlife Service on a 99-year lease, with a boardwalk, a wildlife pier and a planter's house visitor center.
• Masur Museum of Art — 21 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.

More markers nearby

• Po' Henry and Tookie — steps away
• Rayville's African American School — 0.8 mi
• Ivory Joe Hunter — 15 mi
• Jerry Cupit — 16 mi