Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith was buried near Philadelphia, US


Monday 4th October 1937

Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith was buried near Philadelphia, US. Some 7,000 mourners attended her funeral. Smith had died a few days before when the old Packard she was driving hit a parked truck in Mississippi, between Clarksdale and Memphis. There is no record of Smith’s date of birth, but she was suspected to be about the age of 43.


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