Ruben Lacy

Rubin Lacy's recording legacy is two songs. In 1927 he cut four sides for Columbia in Memphis, but none were released, and the masters do not survive. In 1928 he recorded "Mississippi Jail House Groan" and "Ham Hound Crave" for Paramount, and that pair is all that remains. He later became a minister, and researcher David Evans found him in Lancaster, California, and recorded him with his congregation. His bottleneck style inspired Son House. Lacy died in California in 1969, a long way from Pelahatchie.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Roosevelt State Park — 7.5 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps state park on 150-acre Shadow Lake beside Bienville National Forest, with rustic cabins the CCC built between 1935 and 1940.
• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 21 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 22 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 22 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.

More markers nearby

• Centenary College — 3.8 mi
• Choctaw Line — 4.4 mi
• Shiloh Methodist Campground — 5.7 mi
• Rankin County Courthouses — 11 mi