John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist.

Mississippi John Hurt had taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine. His strings were made by the early 20th-century company Emory and also belonged to Hoskins. Additional footage from the festival shows Hurt playing “Casey Jones” on a Harmony Sovereign 12-string.

Who inherited Mississippi John Hurt’s money and estate?

Mississippi John Hurt was a great musician who acquired a lot of fame and wealth in the long run. Although he did not become instantly popular in the 1920s due to his soft-spoken nature and dislike for the limelight, he was rediscovered and popularized in the early 1960s by a new generation.

Over the years, John Hurt acquired a large fortune estimated at 20 million USD even after his death.

According to sources, Mississippi John Hurt had left no will or testament after his death. But in 1999 and after Mississippi John’s death, a court determined that his heirs were his wife, Gertrude Conley Hurt (“Gertrude”), and 14 grandchildren, including Sterling and Mary.