^Big Bill Broonzy remembered that "Lonnie told me he was born in New Orleans in 1894." Source also references 1894 as birth date. Sallis, James (1982). The Guitar Players One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music. p. 33.
^There is some dispute over the year of his birth; 1894 is given on his passport. Some other sources give 1889.
^Herzhaft, Gérard (1979). Encyclopedia of the Blues.
