Editing Robert Johnson (section)

===Gravesite===
[[File:TombstoneRobert Johnson.jpg|thumb|Alleged gravesite at Payne Chapel near Quito, with one of Johnson's three tombstones]]
The true location of Johnson's grave is unknown; three different markers have been erected at possible sites in church cemeteries outside Greenwood.
*Research in the 1980s and 1990s strongly suggests Johnson was buried in the graveyard of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church near [[Morgan City, Mississippi]], not far from Greenwood, in an unmarked grave. A one-ton [[cenotaph]] in the shape of an obelisk, listing all of Johnson's song titles, with a central inscription by [[Peter Guralnick]], was placed at this location in 1990, paid for by Columbia Records and numerous smaller contributions made through the [[Mount Zion Memorial Fund]].
[[File:ObeliskRobJohn.jpg|thumb|Alleged gravesite at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church near Morgan City]]
* In 1990, a small marker with the epitaph "Resting in the Blues" was placed in the cemetery of Payne Chapel, near [[Quito, Mississippi]], by an Atlanta rock group named the Tombstones, after they saw a photograph in ''Living Blues'' magazine of an unmarked spot alleged by one of Johnson's ex-girlfriends to be Johnson's burial site.{{sfn|Cheseborough|2009|pp=145–146}}
* More recent research by Stephen LaVere (including statements from Rosie Eskridge, the wife of the supposed gravedigger, in 2000){{sfn|Pearson|McCulloch|2003|p=117}} indicates that the actual grave site is under a big pecan tree in the cemetery of the Little Zion Church, north of Greenwood along Money Road. Through LaVere, Sony Music placed a marker at this site, which bears LaVere's name as well as Johnson's. Researchers [[Bruce Conforth]] and [[Gayle Dean Wardlow]] also concluded this was Johnson's resting place in their 2019 biography.

[[File:RobJohnLittleZion.jpg|thumb|Alleged gravesite at Little Zion Church north of Greenwood]]
John Hammond Jr., in the documentary ''[[The Search for Robert Johnson]]'' (1991), suggests that owing to poverty and lack of transportation Johnson is most likely to have been buried in a pauper's grave (or "[[potter's field]]") very near where he died.