Blues composer, guitarist, and singer Robert Johnson died after drinking poisoned whiskey in a juke joint. He died on August 16, 1938, near Greenwood, Mississippi. Although there are several markers in Leflore county that are said to be the location of his grave, he is most likely buried in the cemetery of the Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Greenwood.
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