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Casey Jones

Casey Jones is a folksong hero based on accounts of John Luther Jones, a railroad man. The song was written by his fireman, Wallace Sanders.

According to the article on Yalobusha: Famed railroad engineer J. L. "Casey" Jones moved from Jackson, Tennessee to Water Valley in 1893. In 1896, four years before his death in a train wreck which brought him fame, Jones moved back to Jackson.

Jones was killed in a railroad disaster in Yazoo County, just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, in 1900.

Jones' picture appeared on a 1950 United States postage stamp honoring railroad engineers.

Utah Phillips used Jones as an anti-hero in his song "Casey Jones, the union scab".

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