Jim Reeves

AUGUST 30, 1924 - JULY 31, 1964

BORN IN GALLOWY, James Travis Reeves played professional baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals’ minor league team until an injury forced him to abandon that career. He became a radio disc jockey and formed a country western band. Joining the Grand Ole Opry in 1955, he became a world famous singer. Known fondly as “Gentleman Jim,” Reeves was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, three years after he died in a plane crash.

LOCAL SCULPTOR Bob Harness had a vision that has turned into a reality — a 14 foot statue of Jesus depicting the words to the poem “Footprints in the Sand”. This statue can be found in a park on the southwest loop in Carthage, approximately 1/4 mile south of HWY 315 at 1320 Dixie Lake Road.