Built in 1888 by Welsh coal miners, the church and its cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Miners who fought the Tennessee National Guard over the use of convict labor during the Coal Creek War and the church was a . . . — — Map (db m102331) HM
Thirty-one of the 84 miners who perished in the December 9, 1911 explosion of the Cross Mountain Mine are buried in concentric circles around a monument beside Circle Cemetery Road. The arrangement of headstones may be rooted in the Welsh ancestry . . . — — Map (db m102427) HM
Born in NC, 1783; veteran of the War of 1812; early Bedford County manufacturer; Whig political leader. In 1810 Cannon provided 100 acres of land for the site of the "Town of Shelbyville" and in 1817 donated 5 acres to Dickson Academy and a lot to a . . . — — Map (db m26807) HM
In the cemetery north of the road are buried Confederate soldiers of the Army of Tennessee, who fell while opposing the advance of Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland through Liberty Gap and Guy's Gap, in late June, 1863. Also buried here are soldiers . . . — — Map (db m25864) HM
Strolling Jim, the first World's Champion Tennessee Walking Horse, is buried in a pasture directly behind the Walking Horse Hotel. Foaled in 1936, this former work horse was ridden to the championship by Floyd Carothers at the first Walking Horse . . . — — Map (db m24165) HM
U.D.C. Marker to eight Irish CSA soldiers
probably worked on railroad
1860-1861
Erected by
Captain Nathaniel A. Wesson
United Daughters of the Confederacy
1992 — — Map (db m109049) WM
This Presbyterian church was
established in 1786. Its first pastor
was the Rev. Gideon Blackburn
who served an extensive circuit
in the area. Elizabeth Paxton
Houston, mother of Sam Houston,
is buried here. — — Map (db m150789) HM
This Presbyterian church was founded in 1786 by Rev. Archibald Scott, of Virginia. In 1792, Rev. Gideon Blackburn built a log church here; the stones in the present wall are from a church which replaced it in 1829; the brick church replaced it in . . . — — Map (db m28733) HM
Early settlers coming down the Great War & Trading Path in 1784-85 camped here; it was the scene of their first death and burial. In 1786 the Rev. Archibald Scott of Virginia organized a Presbyterian congregation in the area; the church was built . . . — — Map (db m81365) HM
Here stood the home of John Walker, Junior, known as “Chief Jack”. A grandson of Nancy Ward, he was prominent in the affairs of the Cherokee nation, belonging to the party advocating a voluntary treaty of removal of the Cherokees to the . . . — — Map (db m81366) HM
In 1873, Bennet Cooper (1797-1886) gave one-quarter of an acre of land for a family burying ground. His first wife, Lydia, was buried there along with several other family members. The cemetery is located on a ridge behind the Cooper Homeplace . . . — — Map (db m81367) HM
First called City Cemetery, this is the resting place of both Confederate and Union soldiers. On November 4, 1862, a train wreck south of Cleveland killed 17 Confederate soldiers who are buried here in a mass grave. Nearby engagements in 1863 . . . — — Map (db m102186) HM
These young men were killed in a R.R. wreck near Thaxton, VA, July 2, 1889 while en route to Europe.
The body of Will Steed alone was recovered and interred in the city cemetery.
This monument is erected in loving remembrance of the three by their . . . — — Map (db m227461) HM
Born in Cannon County in 1890, James Harvey Cummings, known as "Mr. Jim," was a farmer, attorney, politician, and statesman. Having served in the Tennessee General Assembly from 1928 to 1972, except for 1949 – 1953 when he was Secretary of . . . — — Map (db m60422) HM
Born in Maury Co., he was an officer of volunteers in the Mexican War. A lifelong staunch Unionist, he was a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention of 1860, later an officer in the Federal Army. A delegate to the Republican convention . . . — — Map (db m52608) HM
Established in 1822, this cemetery contains the remains of soldiers from every major American war since the establishment of the state. Among those buried here are two from the War of 1812, three from the Mexican War, and thirty-eight from the Civil . . . — — Map (db m51407) HM
Cedar Grove Cemetery was originally established as a "colored cemetery" in the early nineteenth century on a tract of land adjacent to a trail that became known as Gap Creek Road. The remote and rocky terrain often required the use of dynamite to . . . — — Map (db m81370) HM
The Tipton family cemetery, it stood near the homesite of Samuel Tipton (1752-1833) and Susannah Reneau (1767-1853). Col. John Tipton, father of Samuel, deeded it to him in 1784. The house was later the home of a nephew, Isaac P. Tipton, whose . . . — — Map (db m81371) HM
At Valley Forge, Dan Ellis usually assembled for Federal regiments whom he guided over obscure mountain trails to Kentucky, while East Tennessee was under Confederate control. Born 1827 and a veteran of the Mexican War, he was subsequently Captain . . . — — Map (db m135595) HM
Born 1798 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Colonel John Purdy came to Tennessee in 1819. During the 1820s he served as Surveyor-General of the Ninth Surveyor’s District, with his office-home in Mifflin, which he named in honor of his Pennsylvania . . . — — Map (db m218360) HM
During World War II, thousands of captured Axis soldiers became Allied Prisoners Of War (POWs). Nearly 425,000 German, Italian, and Japanese POWS came to the United States on empty supply ships returning from the war front. For the remainder of the . . . — — Map (db m246178) HM
Capt. Jacob C. “Jake” Bennett, a native Kentuckian and noted Confederate partisan ranger, is buried in Donaldson Cemetery (four miles north of here). During the war, bushwhackers and guerrillas on both sides raided the sparsely populated . . . — — Map (db m112197) HM
On September 25, 1830, Mary Ann (Hudspeth) Webb (ca 1772-1842) used the proceeds from the sale of her land holdings in North Carolina to buy 200 acres of land in Overton County, located on the east side of the Obed River, about 1 ½ miles . . . — — Map (db m112216) HM
Originally the site of a pioneer cemetery, many early residents are buried here. In 1866, returned Confederate soldiers, under the leadership of Maj. William Hume and David Lawrence, collected and reinterred here the bodies of soldiers who fell at . . . — — Map (db m24162) HM
This cemetery was established in the early 1800's, by the burial on this spot of David Hickerson and his wife Nancy Hickerson. It has been known throughout the years as the Granny Hickerson Cemetery, though members of other families are also known . . . — — Map (db m69657) HM
The cemetery holds the graves of over 500 Confederate soldiers who died from wounds, illness, or accidents while in Tullahoma. 404 soldiers have been identified from records located many years after the Civil War. Col. Matt Martin, CSA deeded the . . . — — Map (db m172408) HM
On this ground are buried 407 unknown Confederates. Many of these died in one of the hospitals established here when Tullahoma was headquarter for the Army of Tennessee during the first six months of 1863. Following the Battle of Murfreesboro and . . . — — Map (db m75311) HM WM
Tullahoma was the headquarters and logistics center of the Confederate Army of Tennessee for the first six months of 1863 after the Battle of Murfreesboro. At least three hospitals here treated soldiers wounded during Gen. Braxton Bragg’s 1862 and . . . — — Map (db m75310) HM
This land was donated to the city for use as a cemetery in 1875 by J.E. Hogain, a son-in-law of one of Tullahoma's five founders, Dr. T.A. Anderson, a physician whose home was at Belmont. It is the burial site for many of Tullahoma's leading . . . — — Map (db m172351) HM
With 1874 land grants, Needham Moore, D.H. James, and James Alexander Cox, all descendants of Moses Cox, for whom Coxville was named, the original — trustees established the Cox's Chapel Church of Christ and Cemetery. All three are interred here . . . — — Map (db m180305) HM
During the Civil War, Richard Lafayette Flynn and his wife, Ezyiphia, ran an Underground Railroad stop in Cumberland County on Big Laurel Creek assisting Unionist refugees, slaves who had escaped, and soldiers, including Andrews' Raiders, from . . . — — Map (db m184526) HM
Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church, built in 1859, replaced a log building which occupied land donated by Edwin Austin & Thomas Boaz in 1826. One of the best known pastors was Hugh Bone Hill who also preached at the Jerusalem Church in . . . — — Map (db m146619) HM
In 1871, District 6 school commissioners John Briley, Benjiah Gray and Jason Austin bought one acre of land from James Thompson for an African American school. In 1873, African American members of the Benevolent Society of Olive Branch No. 38 . . . — — Map (db m147704) HM
The Devon Farm Cemetery was relocated in 2003 from its original location on this property. A marker commemorating the first site can be found south of the historic brick farmhouse.
John Davis settled on Devon Farm in 1795. His descendants, . . . — — Map (db m200319) HM
Two blocks west is the grave of this renowned frontiersman and Goodlettsville’s first citizen. Coming first to the Cumberland Settlements in 1770, he returned in 1780 and built his fort one-half mile north on Mansker’s creek. He repeatedly fought . . . — — Map (db m2428) HM
He erected his fort, called Manskers Station in 1780, 1 mile north on Manskers Creek. He was laid to rest in the community he served for 40 years. His remains were moved to this site by the Goodlettsville Men's Club, 1956. — — Map (db m178469) HM
Rachel Jackson quietly suffered through Jackson’s bid for the White House, as his enemies attacked the circumstances of their marriage. Although Jackson easily won the presidency, Rachel dreaded the gossiping whispers of Washington’s social circles. . . . — — Map (db m81403) HM
Most of the 483 Confederate soldiers buried here were veterans who died while in the Confederate Soldiers' Home which stood about 1 mile north of here. Also buried here is Ralph Ledbetter, former slave and bodyguard to a Confederate officer during . . . — — Map (db m147676) HM WM
Residents of the Tennessee Confederate Soldiers’ Home gained admission by proving that they served in the Confederate army honorably and that they could no longer provide for themselves. For most, an approved pension application or military record . . . — — Map (db m182543) HM
In 2006, archaeologists discovered a slave cemetery at the site of a new subdivision on the former Ingleside plantation that once adjoined The Hermitage.
This cemetery likely held the remains of the enslaved from not only Ingleside, but also . . . — — Map (db m182548) HM
This crude, unhewn piece of everlasting granite
is here to mark the resting place of manly men
men like it: firm, solid, true men who, in support
of principle, uncomplainingly endured hunger,
cold and deprivation which history cannot . . . — — Map (db m182551) WM
This cemetery provides a resting place for many members of the Donelson family whose original burial sites have been lost to development. It is not original to the Hermitage Church grounds.
In 1948, a local chapter of the Daughters of the . . . — — Map (db m182534) HM
Andrew Jackson's strong sense of family extended beyond those he embraced during his lifetime.
Reaching into the future to touch generations yet to come, he deeded a small portion of the garden in trust to serve as a family cemetery. Stones . . . — — Map (db m85372) HM
No original records Survive för this burial ground of the Buchanan family and friends. Early interments likely include Samuel Buchanan, evidently killed by Indians outside the station walls in 1786, and John Buchanan, Sr., killed inside the . . . — — Map (db m175151) HM
The Cumberland Settlements
In the winter of 1779 - 1780, the family of John and Jane Trindle Buchanan was among the earliest permanent American settlers of the bend in the Cumberland River where the city of Nashville, Tennessee is now . . . — — Map (db m175150) HM
A lasting monument to the early pioneers and defenders of Nashville who sacrificed their lives and who now lie in peace including Revolutionary War patriot, John "Major" Buchanan and his wife, Sarah “Sally” Ridley Buchanan. — — Map (db m175152) HM
In 1839 William Giles Harding commissioned the construction of a limestone burial vault for his recently deceased wife, Mary Selena McNairy Harding. This vault eventually became the final resting place for five generations of Harding-Jackson . . . — — Map (db m158319) HM
Revolutionary War Pvt. John Alford built a two-room house on this land c. 1810, expanding it in 1812 and 1820. The Alford cemetery retains three markers that were placed as early as 1822. The c. 1830 brick two-story Federal dwelling was home to . . . — — Map (db m147408) HM
Due to the lack of records kept by slave owners, including those at Belle Meade, it is often difficult to piece together the full story of the daily lives and experiences of enslaved individuals. In particular, and particularly disheartening, is . . . — — Map (db m158289) HM
Alice Thompson (1777-1828) married Revolutionary War veteran Edward Collinsworth (1759-1816) in Dec. 1795, after spending two years as a captive at the Muscogee (Creek) tribal town Kialegee, in present-day Alabama. Alice and Edward reared seven . . . — — Map (db m207153) HM
Jesse Shelton DeMoss was the grandson of Bellevue co-founder James DeMoss and the son or prosperous farmer Thomas DeMoss, of the Davidson County 14th District. Between 1866 and 1870, Jesse moved with his family from the 14th to 12th district. In . . . — — Map (db m219714) HM
Within the stone walls of this family cemetery are buried some of Bellevue's earliest settlers. Abraham Louis DeMoss (1753-1820) of Huguenot ancestry purchased land on both sides of the Harpeth River in 1800; by constructing a saw mill, a gristmill, . . . — — Map (db m234958) HM
The grounds of the City Cemetery began to decline after it was closed in 1878. The stigma of disease that pushed the City Council to pass ordinances allowing only families with open plots to continue burials all but sealed the fate of Nashville's . . . — — Map (db m205318) HM
(side 1)
Preston Taylor was born a slave on November 7, 1849 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He served as a drummer boy in the Union Army during the siege of Richmond, Virginia. After the Civil War, he secured a contract to build several . . . — — Map (db m166305) HM
The Reverend Nelson G. Merry, born enslaved in 1824 in Kentucky, was brought to Tennessee by his master. At age 16, Merry's widowed mistress willed him to the First Baptist Church. He was freed in 1845. Merry preached to the "colored" mission of . . . — — Map (db m147482) HM
Andrew Jackson
Born March 15, 1767 - Died June 8, 1845
Grand Master of Tennessee 1822-1823
President of the United States 1829-1837 — — Map (db m214563) HM
Organized in 1846 by Elders Peter and Thomas Fuqua, New Hope Baptist Church is one
of the oldest churches in the Nashville Baptist Association. In 1847, one mile south of here, a log church edifice was erected. It was destroyed by fire in 1871. . . . — — Map (db m154967) HM
In memory of
Rachel Stockley Donelson who lies here
Born in Va. 1716, died 1794
and her husband Col. John Donelson
Born in Va. 1718
Killed by Indians in Kentucky 1785
Erected by their decendants and Rachel Stockley Donelson Chapter . . . — — Map (db m223801) HM
Grave of Lucinda "Granny" White, who settled here in 1803 on 50 acres of land. She died in 1815 at about age 73. Granny White Tavern stood 200' to the north. Famous for its food, brandy, and comfortable beds, it attracted travelers from the Natchez . . . — — Map (db m95832) HM
The Temple Cemetery was established in 1851 with the purchase of three acres by the Hebrew Benevolent Burial Association and still serves Nashville's first Jewish congregation, The Temple, Congregation Ohabal Sholom. It blends early urban burial . . . — — Map (db m74332) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m146936) HM
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that . . . — — Map (db m146957) WM
Earl Scruggs was the most influential and most imitated banjo player in the world. On December 8, 1945. He joined Bill Monroe's band and helped give birth to bluegrass music when he introduced his innovative and exciting 2-finger style of playing . . . — — Map (db m163420) HM
The Spring Hill meeting house was built here in 1785. The church yard was used as a community burying ground. In 1813, this was conveyed to a board of commissioners and designated to be used as a burying ground forever. It was called Craighead . . . — — Map (db m163418) HM
A self-described poor boy from Sneedville, Tennessee in references to his early years. Jimmy (James H.) Martin was dubbed "The King of Bluegrass Music" during the 1970's. A major force in defining and establishing the music's so-called "High . . . — — Map (db m224795) HM
Louise Scruggs was the first female artist manager and booking agency in the history of country music. Born Anne Louise Certain, she grew up as an only child on a farm near Lebanon, Tennessee. At age seven, she asked for, and received, a toy . . . — — Map (db m163460) HM
Humble Beginnings
In 1943, with a $1,000 loan, Douglas Granville Odom Sr. and his wife, Louise Odom, converted a chicken house in Madison, TN into a four-hog-a-day meat grinding sausage business.
Son, Doug Jr. remembers . . . — — Map (db m163417) HM
Fort Nashboro settlers began building outposts throughout Davidson County. An area known as Springhill, located on a hill with a freshwater spring, became one of the most important in the development of present day Madison. Spring Hill Cemetery, the . . . — — Map (db m224783) HM
Samuel Dold Morgan, born November 8, 1798, in Staunton, Virginia, moved with his family at an early age to Maryville, Tenn. and later to Huntsville, Ala. following attendance at University of Nashville and employment in Huntsville, he moved to . . . — — Map (db m163423) HM
Designed by William Strickland, noted Philadelphia architect who also designed the tower of Independence Hall. Construction was commenced in 1845 and completed 1859. Strickland died in 1854 and is entombed in the north portico. His son Francis, . . . — — Map (db m36112) HM
William Strickland, architect and engineer, was born in 1768, and grew up in Philadelphia. The son of a master carpenter, Strickland became a friend of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, renowned designer of the day, and was apprenticed to Latrobe at the . . . — — Map (db m163529) HM
The City Cemetery is filled with families and individuals associated with Nashville's past. From the settlement's founding in 1780 to today, it has been the final resting place of Senators and Congressmen, Mayors and Aldermen, Citizens and Soldiers, . . . — — Map (db m205324) HM
Death and Disease in the 19th Century
By 1850 Nashville was a rapidly growing
city. Commercial trade generated by a
combination of traffic along the
Cumberland River and the macadamized
turnpikes that radiated out from the wharf
brought . . . — — Map (db m207199) HM
Adelicia Hayes was the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes. At times Hayes was a lawyer, judge, Presbyterian minister and a land speculator. Adelicia married 50-year-old Isaac Franklin when she was 22. Franklin's home, Fairvue, still stands outside of . . . — — Map (db m166484) HM
Though Heiman was first buried in Mississippi, admirers brought Heiman's remains to Confederate Circle where they now rest beneath the monument. Confederate officers had recommended he be promoted to brigadier general, and this was confirmed four . . . — — Map (db m166483) HM
Cheatham's small stone is about 100 feet back. Cheatham was born in Nashville. His mother's grandfather was James Robertson, the founder of Nashville. He grew up on the family plantation on the Cumberland River's Cockrell Bend. The Cheathams came . . . — — Map (db m166477) HM
Caroline Meriwether was the first child of Charles and Caroline Meriwether. Their estate, “Woodstock”, overlapped the Tennessee-Kentucky border near Clarksville. Her father's chief occupation was raising thoroughbred horses, which led . . . — — Map (db m166494) HM
Cemetery vaults, monuments, and headstones
were considered eternal symbols associated
with the legacy of the deceased. Architects,
engineers, and stonecutters were hired to
design and construct these permanent fixtures.
Flat headstones and . . . — — Map (db m204725) HM
First established in 1822, the remains of many early settlers were then brought here for permanent burial. Among the more than 20,000 persons buried here are Gen. James Robertson, Gov. William Carroll, Sec. of Treasury George W. Campbell, Lt. Gen. . . . — — Map (db m74357) HM WM
After the War Between the States, the women of Nashville bought land at Mount Olivet, and formed Confederate Circle. The remains of about 1,500 Confederate soldiers were moved here from area battlefields. Seven Confederate generals were buried in . . . — — Map (db m76477) HM
Ante-bellum newspaper editor and Brigadier General in Confederate Army. Killed at battle of Fishing Creek, Kentucky, January 19, 1862. He was first Confederate general killed in the West. — — Map (db m214918) HM
When the Nashville City Cemetery opened in 1822, it was four acres in size. Over time, the grounds were expanded to meet community's burial needs. by the late-1850's the cemetery had grown to twenty-seven acres and held more than 15,000 graves. That . . . — — Map (db m205359) HM
1794-1835
Jackson County attorney;
aide-de-camp, General Carroll,
at New Orleans, 1815;
State Senator, 1827-29;
Bank Commissioner, 1829;
Secretary of State
for Tennessee, 1831-35.
His motto: Office has no
charms to . . . — — Map (db m214916) HM
Maney's grave is located about 75 feet up the hill under a cedar tree.
The Maneys were French Huguenots. They lived in the seaport town of Meschers where they witnessed the migration of Huguenots escaping Catholic persecution. The Maneys first . . . — — Map (db m166475) HM
Hylan Rosser is but one of 1,492 Confederate soldiers buried here in Confederate Circle. Most of the dead do not have marked graves, and there are no known photographs of most. Rosser has been chosen as a representative of those soldiers who gave . . . — — Map (db m166488) HM
Rains is buried about 30 feet back, with a flat granite marker. Rains graduated from Yale Law School in 1854 and began a practice in Nashville. In 1858 he married Ida Yeatman, and they had one child, Laura. Rains also served as city attorney and as . . . — — Map (db m166490) HM
Though largely forgotten today, John Bell was one of the last great American statesmen. He was born in Davidson County in 1796, the year Tennessee became a state. Bell was elected to the U.S. Congress defeating Felix Grundy, Bell's service, . . . — — Map (db m166482) HM
Born in Washington County, Tennessee, Henry Melville Doak was an adventurous young man who tried twice, at age 4 and at 7, to run away from home and join the militia headed off to fight in the Mexican War. Several years older, he gave up the study . . . — — Map (db m166491) HM
Only son
of Edward Rutledge,
signer of the
Declaration of Independence.
He married the daughter
of Arthur Middleton,
another signer
of the Declaration. — — Map (db m214915) HM
Mary Bradford Johns and husband John Johns are buried about 75 feet ahead.
Mary Bradford was descended from several Virginia patriots of the Revolutionary War. Her grandfather, Captain John Bradford, came to Tennessee soon after the war, . . . — — Map (db m166489) HM
Mary Kate was the daughter of Dr. Hugh and Ellen T. Patterson. They lived along Nolensville Pike in the defunct community of Rashboro, now within Nashville. She was attending Elliott School when the U.S. capture of Nashville interrupted her . . . — — Map (db m166486) HM
Mill Creek Baptist Church, mother church of Southern Baptists in Davidson County, occupied two meeting houses at this site from 1797 until the early 20th century.
Here, in 1833, Baptists formed the first Tennessee Baptist Convention. The church's . . . — — Map (db m147169) HM
Mount Ararat, Nashville's first African-American cemetery, was officially opened in April 1869. The property was purchased on March 23, 1869, by the Colored Sons of Relief Number One and the Colored Benevolent Society. Lots went on sale on May 2, . . . — — Map (db m151767) HM
In 1820, the city of Nashville, purchased four acres off property "on the plains south of downtown" for ue as a public burial ground. The cemetery at Sulphur Springs Bottom, just north of today's State Capitol, was plagued by flooding from the . . . — — Map (db m204705) HM
Rachel Carter's diary is the source of her varied experiences in Nashville during the war. Her father, Daniel Carter, was a bank president. The Carter home was at the corner of High Street (now 6th Avenue) and Union. Rachel and her husband, Thomas . . . — — Map (db m166478) HM
Lieutenant General in Confederate Army, commanding a corps in Robert e. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. After the war lived on farm at Ewell's Station (Spring Hill), Tennessee. — — Map (db m204706) HM
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Tennessee allied with the South in June 1861, making Nashville a Confederate capital. Unable to defend the city after the fall of Ft. Donelson, Nashville was surrendered to the Federal army in February 1862. Union . . . — — Map (db m205365) HM
During much of the 19th century, those who lived in the city came from all walks of life. Nashville's population was comprised of a combination of independent business owners, slaveholders, poor whites, Irish an german immigrants, free Blacks, and . . . — — Map (db m205371) HM
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