Jerry Cupit

Before he made his name in Nashville, Jerry Cupit worked on local farms and drove tractors. When Lainey Wilson reached Nashville in 2011, he let her park her camper trailer outside his studio for three years, and she has said that parking lot became a home. He co-wrote Jukebox Junkie with Ken Mellons, who sang it at the unveiling of Cupit's marker in 2026, among corn fields still farmed by Wilson's father. Cupit died in 2014, before Wilson's fame arrived.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 22 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 24 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 — 26 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.
• Masur Museum of Art — 27 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

• Lainey Wilson — steps away
• Fred Carter, Jr. — 6.2 mi
• Franklin Parish — 6.2 mi
• Boeuf Prairie Methodist Church — 14 mi