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Casey Jones
Jonathan Luther "John" "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) from Jackson, Tennessee, was an American railroader who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad (IC). As a boy, he lived near Cayce, Kentucky, where he acquired the nickname of "Cayce," which he chose to spell as "Casey."〔''Erie Railroad Magazine'' Vol 24 (April 1928), No 2, pp. 13,44.〕 On April 30, 1900, he was killed when his passenger train, the ''Cannonball Express'', collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi, on a foggy and rainy night.
His dramatic death while trying to stop his train and save lives made him a hero; he was immortalized in a popular ballad sung by his friend Wallace Saunders, an African-American engine wiper for the IC.〔(The Historic Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in Jackson, Tennessee ) 〕〔Lomax, John A and Lomax, Alan. (1934) ''American Ballads and Folk Songs''. Macmillan., p. 34〕
==Marriage==
Jones married Mary Joanna ("Janie") Brady (born 1866), whose father owned the boarding house where Jones was staying. Since she was Catholic, he decided to convert and was baptized on November 11, 1886 at St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Whistler, Alabama,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Congressional record )〕 to please her. They were married at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Jackson on November 25, 1886. They bought a house at 211 West Chester Street in Jackson, where they raised their three children. By all accounts he was a devoted family man and teetotaler.〔
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