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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[?].

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

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



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