Blind Lemon Jefferson

Blind Lemon Jefferson was an American blues and gospel singer, guitarist, and songwriter from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been called Father of the Texas Blues.

Jefferson was born blind, near Coutchman in Freestone County, near presentday Wortham, Texas. He was the youngest of seven children born to sharecroppers Alex and Clarissa Jefferson. Disputes regarding the date of his birth derive from contradictory census records and draft registration records. By 1900, the family was farming southeast of Streetman, Texas, and his birth date is indicated as September 1893 in the 1900 census. The 1910 census, taken in May, before his birthday, further confirms his year of birth as 1893 and indicated that the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near his birthplace.

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