Article Photos: Miss. bluesman getting long overdue grave marker



In this photograph released by the Mississippi House of Representatives Information Office, a painting of the late Mississippi blues singer Tommy Johnson is displayed Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at the Mississippi Capitol. Johnson's niece Vera Johnson-Collins helped organize a ceremony Friday in which a headstone will be placed on her uncle’s gravesite in Copiah County, Miss. Johnson died Nov. 1, 1956. (AP Photo/The Mississippi House of Representatives Information Office, Meg Annison)

In this photograph released by the Mississippi House of Representatives Information Office, a painting of the late Mississippi blues singer Tommy Johnson is displayed Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at the Mississippi Capitol. Johnson's niece Vera Johnson-Collins helped organize a ceremony Friday in which a headstone will be placed on her uncle’s gravesite in Copiah County, Miss. Johnson died Nov. 1, 1956. (AP Photo/The Mississippi House of Representatives Information Office, Meg Annison)