The grave of Joe Cain is located just inside the entrance of Church Street Graveyard. Every year during Mardi Gras, the Merry Widows, a group of women dressed in black, visit his grave and decorate it with trinkets. The Sunday before Mardi Gras is celebrated as "Joe Cain Day" in Mobile.
Joe Cain's Grave
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Photo courtesy of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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