Robert Johnson Gravesite

Robert Johnson died in Greenwood on August 16, 1938, and where he lies is uncertain. Historians call his three gravesites monuments to the unreliability of recollection. His death certificate names Zion Church as the burial place, yet none of the current memorials sits at a place of that name. The memorial beside Money Road is one of the three, and he is only thought to be buried in this graveyard. He left just twenty-nine recorded songs.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bryant's Grocery — 6.2 mi
  The ruin of the Money store where Emmett Till was accused in August 1955, on private land beside the railroad, with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at the corner.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 17 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 22 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Dockery Farms — 26 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.

More markers nearby

• Guitar Slim — 1.3 mi
• Bobbie Gentry — 2.1 mi
• Hubert Sumlin — 3.2 mi
• Greenwood — 3.4 mi