Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana, but the address of his later life was a ranch in Nesbit, where he settled in 1973. The IRS seized property from the ranch in 1985, and in 1988 he filed for bankruptcy, reporting more than three million dollars in debt, two million of it owed to the IRS. He kept performing for decades more. The Country Music Hall of Fame announced his election in May 2022, and on 28 October that year he died at home in Nesbit, aged 87. His funeral was held in Ferriday a week later.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Graceland — 13 mi
  Elvis Presley's 1939 limestone house in Whitehaven, bought in 1957 and opened as a ticketed museum in 1982, with his grave in the Meditation Garden and a commercial visitor campus around it.
• C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa — 17 mi
  A National Historic Landmark Mississippian mound town on a bluff over the Mississippi, with a university museum, a replica house and a nature trail inside T. O. Fuller State Park.
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music — 17 mi
  A rebuilt Stax studio on the site of the old Capitol Theatre, with a replica of the sloped-floor Studio A, Isaac Hayes's Cadillac and the story of an integrated soul label.
• Elmwood Cemetery — 18 mi
  Memphis's oldest active cemetery, a rural garden cemetery of about 1,500 trees opened in 1852, with Black civic leaders, yellow fever victims and the city's whole history in its lots.

More markers nearby

• Joe Callicott — 1.1 mi
• The Dickinson Family — 6.0 mi
• Beale Town Bound — 6.2 mi
• Big Walter Horton — 8.2 mi