Jesse Rodgers

Jesse Rodgers learned his first guitar chords from his cousin Jimmie, thirteen years older. Their fathers, Eff and Aaron Rodgers, both worked on the Illinois Central. Jesse began on the border radio stations XERA and XERN in 1932, and when Jimmie died in 1933 Bluebird signed him as a possible successor. Forty of his records in that style came out between 1934 and 1937. From 1938 the labels spelled his name Rogers, likely to suggest Roy Rogers, and in the 1950s he played Ranger Joe in a children's series with his horse Topaz.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lauren Rogers Museum of Art — 27 mi
  Mississippi's oldest art museum, a 1923 memorial to a timber heir in Laurel, with a major Native American basket collection and no admission fee since it opened.

More markers nearby

• General James Patton — 6.9 mi
• Lt. Jake W. Lindsey — 7.1 mi
• Winchester — 7.3 mi
• Major General Ira Platt Swift — 7.8 mi