Career
Quinn contracted tuberculosis. In 1948, musician and educator Johnny Wiggs brought a home recording machine and some blank discs to the tuberculosis ward of Charity Hospital, New Orleans where Quinn was bedridden and persuaded Quinn to record. These amateur recordings were later issued and are Quinn"s best known.
Quinn died on April 21, 1949 at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
He is buried in Ponemah Cemetery in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Details of Quinn"s life have been obscure.
His death date is listed as 1952 in many places, but this is incorrect. Also, he is listed in many places as being born in 1906 but according to his passport and death certificate, he was born in 1907.
1910 census records from Pike County indicate Quinn was about three years old in 1910.
Official birth certificates were not kept in Mississippi until beginning in 1912.
