The Covington Digital News Digital Edition February 20, 2015 | Page 5

Friday, Feb. 20, 2015

IN DEPTH

Unfamiliar with blues
legends Curley Weaver
and Cora Mae Bryant?
Check out some of their
music below!

Curley Weaver
Cora Mae Bryant

Continuing a legacy

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BY RANDY SCHAFER

t started as a school social studies fair project — and
became a journey to find a blues legend.
Or at least where one is buried.
Eleven-year-old Sarah Schluiter and her mother
Stephanie, set out to find the grave of legendary blues
musician Curley James Weaver.
“I did this because my local cemetery down the way, you
could tell their had been a fence between the two sides,”
Sarah said. “There’s not many tombstones and it just looks
like there’s nothing there.”
And after multiple
interviews, cold-calls,
chasing down phone
numbers and meeting
with historians, the
Schluiter’s found
their way to the home
of David Randall
Bryant, in Oxford.
Although they were
only given a tip to a
location of a relative’s
house, they had no
idea who they were
going to meet.

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