Marty Stuart

Marty Stuart's first stages were the fairs around Philadelphia. As a boy he led the Musical Rangers, a honky-tonk guitar band, and played the grandstand at the Neshoba County Fair. At the Choctaw Indian Fair in 1970 he met Connie Smith, who became his wife. About two years later, at roughly fourteen, he left home as mandolin player with Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass and stayed until Flatt died in 1979. He then played with Vassar Clements and Doc Watson before joining Johnny Cash's band, where he played electric guitar from 1980 to 1985.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Neshoba County Jail — steps away
  The 1955 jail in downtown Philadelphia where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were held on June 21, 1964, hours before they were murdered.
• Chahta Immi Cultural Center — 4.6 mi
  The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' own museum and cultural center at Pearl River, with basketry, artifacts and the tribe's guidance on what visitors may see.
• Mount Zion Methodist Church — 7.0 mi
  The Black church in Longdale burned by the Klan on June 16, 1964, rebuilt by its congregation, and the place Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner had gone to visit when they were murdered.
• Nanih Waiya — 14 mi
  The Mother Mound of the Choctaw in Winston County, a sacred origin place returned to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in 2008.

More markers nearby

• Marty Gamblin — steps away
• Adam Monroe Byrd — 0.3 mi
• Otis Rush — 0.4 mi
• Bob Ferguson — 6.5 mi