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Hollywood Cemetery Memphis Hollywood Cemetery in Memphis Tennessee is the resting place of two well known Blues musicians, Furry Lewis and Frank Stokes.

It is also the resting place many Memphis Sanitation Workers who were on strike when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.

In our April issue celebrating 200 years of Memphis history, we told the story of Tom Lee (https://memphismagazine.com/f...
09/18/2026

In our April issue celebrating 200 years of Memphis history, we told the story of Tom Lee (https://memphismagazine.com/features/a-heros-tale-tom-lee/), the river worker who rescued some 30 people in 1925 when the steamboat M.E. Norman overturned just south of Memphis.
Space prevented us from including the two images you see here. After the disaster, the Engineers Club of Memphis, which had lost so many members that day, started a fund-raising campaign to buy Lee a house at 923 North Mansfield (above). Lee lived here until his death in 1955. The house is still standing today, but boar
ded up and abandoned.
Lee's wife continued to live here until the 1970s, when she moved to California, and presumably died there. Lee himself was buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery on Hernando Road. No historical marker guides visitors to his grave, but if you wander around long enough, you'll find this nice marker. As we mentioned in the story, no mention is made of the
Norman
tragedy. The stone carries this simple inscription:

09/10/2026
Not much of an update for the South District....
09/10/2026

Not much of an update for the South District....

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09/09/2026
https://gofund.me/d7a72f25b
09/02/2026

https://gofund.me/d7a72f25b

This Memphis Community project will continue with a gathering at Hollywood… Diane Green needs your support for Hollywood Cemetery Restoration in Memphis

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Hollywood Cemetery2012 Hernando Road
Memphis, TN
38106

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+13125456768

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