Joe Callicott

Mississippi Joe Callicott lies in Mount Olive Baptist Church Cemetery in his hometown of Nesbit. For years his grave carried only a paving stone reading JOE. On April 29, 1995, a memorial headstone went up, arranged by the Mount Zion Memorial Fund with help from guitarist Kenny Brown, and paid for by Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records and John Fogerty. His wife Doll received a check for reissue royalties at the ceremony, and the original stone went to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Graceland — 12 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 — 16 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 — 17 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

• Jerry Lee Lewis — 1.1 mi
• The Dickinson Family — 5.6 mi
• Beale Town Bound — 5.8 mi
• Big Walter Horton — 7.2 mi