Editing Lauderdale County, Tennessee (section)

==Culture==

===Sleepy John Estes===
[[Sleepy John Estes]] was a [[United States|U.S.]] [[blues]] [[guitarist]], [[songwriter]] and [[vocalist]], born in [[Ripley, Tennessee]].<ref name="7digital">[http://www.7digital.com/stores/ArtistBiography.aspx?shop=122&masterartist=2859 Biography at 7digital.com from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music - accessed February 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605192435/http://www.7digital.com/stores/ArtistBiography.aspx?shop=122&masterartist=2859 |date=June 5, 2008 }}</ref> He died on June 5, 1977, in his home of 17 years in Brownsville, [[Haywood County, Tennessee|Haywood County]], Tennessee.<ref name="allaboutjazz">Bob Koester and Ray Harmon, [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=6582 Sleepy John Estes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118141245/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=6582 |date=January 18, 2009 }}, ''All About Jazz''. Retrieved: February 17, 2013.</ref><ref name=TNEncySJE>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1593 |author=Brian Dempsey |title='Sleepy' John Estes |access-date=December 16, 2008 |encyclopedia=Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture |publisher=Tennessee Historical Society }}</ref><ref name=NorrisHaywood>{{cite book | title = Black America Series: Haywood County Tennessee | author = Norris, Sharon | year = 2000 | location=  Mount Pleasant, SC | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | isbn = 0-7385-0605-2}}</ref> Sleepy John is buried at Elam Baptist Church Cemetery in Durhamville, Lauderdale County.<ref name=NorrisHaywood/>

===Veterans' Museum in Halls===
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The [[Veterans' Museum]] on the grounds of the former Dyersburg Army Air Base in [[Halls, Tennessee|Halls]] is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of materials related to military activities from [[World War I]] to the present day wars and conflicts, as well as documenting the history of the air base itself.