Jessie Mae Hemphill

Birth Name:
Jessie Mae Hemphill
Birth Date:
October 18, 1923
Birth Place:
Como, Mississippi
Death Date:
July 22, 2006
Place of Death:
Memphis, Tennessee
Age:
0
Cause of Death:
Complications from an ulcer
Cemetery Name:
Senatobia Memorial Cemetery
Claim to Fame:
Music

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Senatobia Memorial Cemetery

Senatobia, Mississippi, 0

USA

North America

Grave Location GPS

34.593317, -89.968183

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Carl Lee Cunningham

popular name: Carl Lee Cunningham

date_of_death: December 10, 1967

age: 19

cause_of_death: Plane crash

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: As a member of the Bar-Kays, Carl played drums for Otis Redding and died in the plane crash that took the life of Otis Redding, Phalon Jones, Carl Cunningham, Ronnie Caldwell, guitarist Jimmy King and valet Matthew Kelly. Only Ben Cauley survived the crash.

Jimmie King

popular name: Jimmie King

date_of_death: December 10, 1967

age: 18

cause_of_death: Plane crash

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: As a member of the Bar-Kays, Jimmy King played guitar for Otis Redding and died in the plane crash that took the life of Otis Redding, Phalon Jones, Carl Cunningham, Ronnie Caldwell and valet Matthew Kelly. Only Ben Cauley survived the crash.

Booker Little Jr.

popular name: Booker Little Jr.

date_of_death: October 5, 1961

age: 23

cause_of_death: Complications from uremia caused by kidney failure

claim_to_fame: Music

best_know_for: Booker Little, twenty-three year-old composer, arranger and trumpet player has lately come to demonstrate, in recordings and as the musical director of the Max Roach group, a talent that was taken too early. When he died suddenly at the age of 23 he was one of the most promising jazz trumpeters working with Max Roach, Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane. After years of physical pain, Little died of complications resulting from kidney failure on October 5, 1961, in New York City at the age 23. He was survived by his wife, two sons Booker T. III and Larry Cornelius, and two daughters Cornelia and Ana Dorsey.

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