traveled again to New York City for a group of sessions beginning May 17. He started these recordings alone and completed four songs on the first day. When he returned to the studio after a day's rest he had to record sitting down, and soon retired to his hotel in hopes of regaining enough energy to finish the songs he had been rehearsing. The recording engineer hired two session musicians to help Rodgers when he returned a few days later. Together they recorded a few songs, including "Mississippi Delta Blues". For his last recording of the session Rodgers chose to perform alone, and as a matching bookend to his career recorded "Years Ago". During this final recording session Rodgers was so weakened from years of fighting tuberculosis that he had a nurse accompanying him on May 24, and needed to rest on a cot between songs. Rodgers was a guest at the Taft Hotel in New York City when he died on May 26, 1933 from a pulmonary hemorrhage brought on by tuberculosis. He was 35 years old. His body was placed in a train in a pearl grey coffin and sent back to his home in Meridian, Mississippi. He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Meridian. At that time he accounted for fully 10% of RCA Victor's sales in a drastically depressed record market. Personal life Rodgers married Carrie Cecil Williamson. The couple had two daughters, Carrie Anita Rodgers (known as Anita), and June Rebecca Rodgers, who died at 6 months in 1923. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Rodgers moved to Asheville, North Carolina by March 1927, living at the Western Hotel, in a cabin behind Pisgah View Apartments, and in a fire station. His jobs included janitor, cab driver and detective. Earnings from his recordings at the peak of his career enabled Rodgers to build his "dreamhouse" for his family in Kerrville, Texas, a location chosen partly for health reasons. Always a man of the people, Rodgers maintained friendships with his old pals and bandmates throughout his life and was noted for his charming, upbeat personality. While on tour, Rodgers became legendary for his generosity to strangers, his habit of giving free impromptu performances, and for his willingness to socialize with his fans. Legacy When the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum was established in 1961, Rodgers was enshrined alongside music publisher and songwriter Fred Rose