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Index to Locations
Unknown location
Private or family graveyards
Madison Nashville National Cemetery
Madison Spring Hill Cemetery
Nashville Calvary Cemetery
Nashville Episcopal Church Burying
Ground
Nashville Greenwood Cemetery
Nashville Hermitage Memorial
Gardens
Nashville Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Nashville Nashville City Cemetery
Nashville Polk Place Grounds (now
gone)
Nashville Spring Hill Cemetery
Nashville State Capitol Grounds
Nashville Tennessee State Capitol
Grounds
Nashville The Hermitage
Nashville Woodlawn Memorial Park
Near Nashville Tusculum Baptist Church
Grounds
Unknown
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Davidson County, Tennessee
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William Dickson (1770-1816) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Duplin
County, N.C., May 5,
1770.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1799-1803; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1799-1803; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1801-07.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
21, 1816 (age 45 years, 292
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Private or family
graveyard
Davidson County, Tennessee
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Washington Barrow (1807-1866) —
of Mississippi; Tennessee.
Born in Davidson
County, Tenn., October
5, 1807.
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1841-44; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1847-49; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1860-61.
Slaveowner.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., October
19, 1866 (age 59 years, 14
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Nashville
National Cemetery
Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee
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Augustus Herman Pettibone (1835-1918) —
also known as A. H. Pettibone —
of Greeneville, Greene
County, Tenn.
Born in Bedford, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
21, 1835.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Tennessee, 1880;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 1st District, 1881-87; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1897-99.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
26, 1918 (age 83 years, 309
days).
Interment at Nashville National Cemetery.
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Spring Hill
Cemetery
Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee
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Richard Merrill Atkinson (1894-1947) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
6, 1894.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 5th District, 1937-39.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April
29, 1947 (age 53 years, 82
days).
Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery.
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Calvary
Cemetery
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
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Lafayette Christopher Thomas (1926-2000) —
also known as Fate C. Thomas —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
23, 1926.
Democrat. Candidate for Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1954; Davidson
County Sheriff, 1972-90.
Catholic.
Indicted
in federal court in 1990 on 54 counts of abusing
his power as sheriff; pleaded
guilty to theft
and mail fraud; sentenced
to five years in prison;
released in 1994.
Died, following heart
bypass surgery, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 25,
2000 (age 73 years, 306
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Raymond Edward Ahearn (1894-1960) —
also known as Raymond E. Ahearn —
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
17, 1894.
Stenographer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Maracaibo, 1926-27; Charlottetown, 1927-28; Buenos Aires, 1928-29.
Died in Cook
County, Ill., January
14, 1960 (age 65 years, 150
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Episcopal Church
Burying Ground
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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buried here: |
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John McNairy (1762-1837) —
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., March
30, 1762.
Superior court judge in North Carolina, 1788; justice of
Southwest Territory supreme court, 1790; U.S.
District Judge for Tennessee, 1797-1802; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1802-33;
resigned 1833; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 1802-33;
resigned 1833.
Died near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
12, 1837 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Episcopal Church Burying Ground; reinterment at
Nashville City Cemetery.
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Greenwood
Cemetery
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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James Carroll Napier (1845-1940) —
of Tennessee.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 9,
1845.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1884;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 5th District, 1898.
African
ancestry.
Founder of Nashville One-Cent Savings Bank;
Register of the U.S. Treasury, 1911-13.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April
21, 1940 (age 94 years, 317
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Hermitage
Memorial Gardens
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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John Thomas Hicks, Sr. (1925-2000) —
also known as John T. Hicks —
of Tennessee.
Born in Davidson
County, Tenn., August
5, 1925.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives 60th District, 1967-77; member of
Tennessee
state senate 20th District, 1977-93.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Lions;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., March
19, 2000 (age 74 years, 227
days).
Interment at Hermitage Memorial Gardens.
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Mt. Olivet
Cemetery
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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John Bell (1796-1869) —
also known as "The Great Apostate" —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
18, 1796.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1817; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1827-41; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1834-35; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1841; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1847; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1847-59; Constitutional Union candidate
for President
of the United States, 1860.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died near Cumberland Furnace, Dickson
County, Tenn., September
10, 1869 (age 73 years, 204
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Joseph Wellington Byrns (1869-1936) —
also known as Joseph W. Byrns; Jo Byrns —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Cedar Hill, Robertson
County, Tenn., July 20,
1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1895-1901; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1899-1901;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1901; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Tennessee; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1909-36 (6th District 1909-33, 5th
District 1933-36); died in office 1936; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1935-36; died in office 1936.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Redmen.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 4,
1936 (age 66 years, 320
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Felix Grundy (1777-1840) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), September
11, 1777.
Delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1799; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1800; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1806; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1811-14; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1815; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1829-38, 1839-40; died in office 1840; U.S.
Attorney General, 1838-39.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
19, 1840 (age 63 years, 99
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Jacob McGavock Dickinson (1851-1928) —
also known as Jacob M. Dickinson —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Columbus, Lowndes
County, Miss., January
30, 1851.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1891-93; law
professor; general counsel, Illinois Central Railroad,
1899-1909; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1909-11.
Member, Izaak
Walton League.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
13, 1928 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Aaron Venable Brown (1795-1859) —
also known as Aaron V. Brown —
of Tennessee.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., August
15, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of James
K. Polk; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1821-25, 1826-27; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1831-33; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1839-45 (10th District 1839-43,
6th District 1843-45); Governor of
Tennessee, 1845-47; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Methodist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1859 (age 63 years, 205
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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William Brimage Bate (1826-1905) —
also known as William B. Bate —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Castalian Springs, Sumner
County, Tenn., October
7, 1826.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1849-51; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Tennessee; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
member, Arrangements Committee, 1876;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Tennessee, 1876-80; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Tennessee; Governor of
Tennessee, 1883-87; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1887-1905; died in office 1905.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 9,
1905 (age 78 years, 153
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Thomas A. Kercheval (1837-1915) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Maury
County, Tenn., January
16, 1837.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1871-74, 1875-83, 1886-88; resigned 1888.
Episcopalian.
Died March
22, 1915 (age 78 years, 65
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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George Earl Maney (1826-1901) —
also known as George Maney —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, 1826.
General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister
to Colombia, 1881-82; Bolivia, 1882-83; Paraguay, 1889-94; Uruguay, 1889-94.
Died in 1901
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Hilary Ewing Howse (1866-1938) —
also known as Hilary E. Howse —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Rutherford
County, Tenn., January
25, 1866.
Democrat. Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1909-15, 1924-38; died in office 1938;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1912,
1916.
Died January
2, 1938 (age 71 years, 342
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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John Hugh Smith (1819-1870) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., 1819.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1844-46, 1850-52, 1862-64.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 7,
1870 (age about 51
years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Benton McMillin (1845-1933) —
also known as "The Democratic War
Horse" —
of Carthage, Smith
County, Tenn.
Born in Monroe
County, Ky., September
11, 1845.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1875-77; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 4th District, 1879-99; Governor of
Tennessee, 1899-1903; defeated, 1912; U.S. Minister to Peru, 1913-19; Guatemala, 1919-21; insurance
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1928.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
8, 1933 (age 87 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880) —
also known as Henry S. Foote; "Hangman
Foote" —
of Tuscumbia, Colbert
County, Ala.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., February
28, 1804.
Lawyer;
co-founder
of LaGrange College, which later became the University of North
Alabama; fought four duels;
fled
Alabama in 1830 to escape
prosecution for dueling;
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-52; exchanged blows with Thomas
Hart Benton on the floor of the U.S. Senate; Governor of
Mississippi, 1852-54; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; expelled
from the Confederate Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized
peace mission; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 19,
1880 (age 76 years, 81
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Neill Smith Brown (1810-1886) —
also known as Neill S. Brown —
of Tennessee.
Born in Giles
County, Tenn., April
18, 1810.
Governor
of Tennessee, 1847-49; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1850-53; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1855-57;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1872.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
30, 1886 (age 75 years, 287
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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George Blackmore Guild (1834-1917) —
also known as George B. Guild —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Sumner
County, Tenn., April 8,
1834.
Democrat. Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1891-95.
Died in Virginia, April
21, 1917 (age 83 years, 13
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Josephus Conn Guild and Catherine (Blackmore)
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Jesse Wharton (1782-1833) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Covesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 29,
1782.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1807-09; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1814-17.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 22,
1833 (age 50 years, 358
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Joseph Thorpe Elliston (1779-1856) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., December
15, 1779.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1813-17.
Died November
10, 1856 (age 76 years, 331
days).
Original interment at Nashville City
Cemetery; reinterment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832-1895) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Paris, Henry
County, Tenn., April 8,
1832.
Democrat. State court judge in Tennessee, 1875; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1880; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1881-86; federal
judge, 1886; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Baptist.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
8, 1895 (age 63 years, 122
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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William Marshall McCarthy (c.1841-1899) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Georgia, about 1841.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1895-97.
Died September
13, 1899 (age about 58
years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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John Meredith Bass (1804-1878) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born January
19, 1804.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1833-34, 1869.
Died in 1878
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Luke Lea (1879-1945) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April
12, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; founder of the Nashville Tennesseean; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1911-17; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1912
(speaker);
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; in January 1919, after
the war was over, he led a group of U.S. Army officers in an unauthorized
attempt to seize former German leader Kaiser Wilhelm; they illegally
entered the Netherlands (which was neutral
territory) using forged
passports; he and the others were reprimanded
by the Army; following the collapse of the Asheville Central Bank and
Trust, he and others were indicted
in 1931 for bank
fraud; convicted
on three counts; sentenced to prison,
served two years before being paroled; ultimately pardoned
in 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Died, in Vanderbilt University Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
18, 1945 (age 66 years, 220
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Richard Boone Cheatham (1824-1877) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Springfield, Robertson
County, Tenn., December
8, 1824.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1859-61, 1869-71; mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1860-62.
Presbyterian.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 7,
1877 (age 52 years, 150
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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John McCormick Lea (1818-1903) —
also known as John M. Lea —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., December
25, 1818.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1842-44; mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1848-50; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1850.
Presbyterian.
Died in Monteagle, Grundy
County, Tenn., September
21, 1903 (age 84 years, 270
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Harry Hill McAlister (1875-1959) —
also known as Hill McAlister —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 15,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1911-13; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Tennessee; Tennessee
Democratic state chair, 1918-20; Tennessee
state treasurer, 1919-27, 1931-33; Governor of
Tennessee, 1933-37.
Christian.
Died October
30, 1959 (age 84 years, 107
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Randal William McGavock (1826-1863) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
10, 1826.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1858-59; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War.
Killed
in battle near Raymond, Hinds
County, Miss., May 12,
1863 (age 36 years, 275
days).
Entombed at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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John Catron (1786-1865) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Virginia, January
7, 1786.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1824-34; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1837-65; died in office 1865.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died May 30,
1865 (age 79 years, 143
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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William Nichol (1800-1878) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., February
12, 1800.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1835-36.
Died November
23, 1878 (age 78 years, 284
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Edward Hazzard East (1830-1904) —
also known as E. H. East —
of Tennessee.
Born October
1, 1830.
Governor
of Tennessee, 1865.
Died November
12, 1904 (age 74 years, 42
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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William Litterer (1834-1917) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Germany,
August
24, 1834.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1890-91.
Died in 1917
(age about
82 years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Guilford Dudley Jr. (1907-2002) —
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., 1907.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; president,
Life & Casualty Insurance
Co., 1952-69; U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, 1969-71.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 13,
2002 (age about 94
years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Morgan Welles Brown (1800-1853) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tenn., 1800.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; U.S.
District Judge for Tennessee, 1834-53; died in office 1853.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., March 7,
1853 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Meredith Poindexter Gentry (1809-1866) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Rockingham
County, N.C., September
15, 1809.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1835-38; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1839-43, 1845-53 (8th District
1839-43, 7th District 1845-53); Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
2, 1866 (age 57 years, 48
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Horace Harrison Harrison (1829-1885) —
also known as Horace H. Harrison —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Lebanon, Wilson
County, Tenn., August
7, 1829.
Republican. U.S.
Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1863, 1872-73; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1867; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 5th District, 1873-75; member of
Tennessee state legislature, 1880.
Slaveowner.
Died December
20, 1885 (age 56 years, 135
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Edward Saunders Cheatham (1818-1878) —
also known as Edward S. Cheatham —
of Springfield, Robertson
County, Tenn.
Born in Springfield, Robertson
County, Tenn., July 31,
1818.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1853-55; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1855-57, 1861-63; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1855-57, 1861-62; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1872.
Died in Horn Lake, DeSoto
County, Miss., December
21, 1878 (age 60 years, 143
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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John Wesley Gaines (1860-1926) —
also known as John W. Gaines —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Wrencoe, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
24, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1897-1909; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee).
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 4,
1926 (age 65 years, 314
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Samuel McClary Fite (1816-1875) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Smith
County, Tenn., June 12,
1816.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1850; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Tennessee; district judge in Tennessee, 1858-61, 1869-74; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 4th District, 1875; died in office
1875.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., October
23, 1875 (age 59 years, 133
days).
Original interment at Carthage
Cemetery, Carthage, Tenn.; reinterment in 1908 at Mt. Olivet
Cemetery.
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Andrew Price (1854-1909) —
of Thibodaux, Lafourche
Parish, La.
Born in Louisiana, 1854.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana,
1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1889-97.
Died in 1909
(age about
55 years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Benjamin Augustine Enloe (1848-1922) —
also known as Benjamin A. Enloe —
of Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn.
Born near Clarksburg, Carroll
County, Tenn., January
18, 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1869-72; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Tennessee, 1872;
newspaper
editor; member of Tennessee
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1878-80; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1887-95.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., July 8,
1922 (age 74 years, 171
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Thomas Lee Woolwine (1874-1925) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., October
31, 1874.
Democrat. Los
Angeles County District Attorney, 1915-23; became one of the
nation's best-known prosecutors; Democratic candidate for Governor of
California, 1918 (primary), 1922.
Episcopalian.
Died, of a liver
ailment, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 8,
1925 (age 50 years, 250
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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William Michael Cocke (1815-1896) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Rutledge, Grainger
County, Tenn., July 16,
1815.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1840; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 2nd District, 1845-49.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
6, 1896 (age 80 years, 205
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Thomas Menees (1823-1905) —
of Springfield, Robertson
County, Tenn.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 26,
1823.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1857; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Tennessee, 1860;
Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
6, 1905 (age 82 years, 72
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Andrew Jackson Caldwell (1837-1906) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Montevallo, Shelby
County, Ala., July 22,
1837.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member
of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1880; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1883-87.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
22, 1906 (age 69 years, 123
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Joseph Hayes Acklen (1850-1938) —
also known as Joseph H. Acklen —
of Pattersonville (now Patterson), St. Mary
Parish, La.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 20,
1850.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1878-81; defeated,
1882.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
28, 1938 (age 88 years, 131
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Benjamin F. Cheatham (1821-1886) —
also known as B. F. Cheatham —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., 1821.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate
for mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1857; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn., 1885-86.
Died, from heart
disease, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
4, 1886 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1867 to Anna
Robertson. |
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James Minor Quarles (1823-1901) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Virginia, 1823.
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1859-61.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1901
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Arthur St. Clair Colyar (1818-1907) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Washington
County, Tenn., June 23,
1818.
Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
13, 1907 (age 89 years, 173
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. (1903-1973) —
also known as Joseph W. Byrns, Jr. —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
15, 1903.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 5th District, 1939-41.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Exchange
Club; Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Daytona Beach, Volusia
County, Fla., March 8,
1973 (age 69 years, 205
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Henry Laurence Norvell (1818-1874) —
also known as Henry L. Norvell —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Tennessee, February
28, 1818.
Republican. U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 5th Tennessee
District, 1867.
Died September
11, 1874 (age 56 years, 195
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Mabel Hill (d. 1956) —
also known as Mrs. Albert E. Hill —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Democrat. Member of Democratic
National Committee from Tennessee, 1939-40; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948.
Female.
Died October
6, 1956.
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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Nashville City
Cemetery
1001 S. 4th Ave.
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1972
| Politicians buried
here: |
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George Washington Campbell (1769-1848) —
also known as George W. Campbell —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Scotland,
February
9, 1769.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1803-09; state court
judge in Tennessee, 1809; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1811-14, 1815-18; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1814; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1818-20.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
17, 1848 (age 79 years, 8
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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William Carroll (1788-1844) —
of Tennessee.
Born near Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March 3,
1788.
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Governor of
Tennessee, 1821-27, 1829-35.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., March
22, 1844 (age 56 years, 19
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Ephraim Hubbard Foster (1794-1854) —
also known as Ephraim H. Foster —
of Tennessee.
Born near Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., September
17, 1794.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1827-31, 1835-37; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1829-31,
1835-37; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1837-39, 1843-45; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Tennessee; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1845.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
6, 1854 (age 59 years, 354
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Felix Robertson (1781-1865) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
11, 1781, the first
white male child to be born in what is now the city of Nashville.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1818-19, 1826-28.
Died July 10,
1865 (age 84 years, 180
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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John McNairy (1762-1837) —
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., March
30, 1762.
Superior court judge in North Carolina, 1788; justice of
Southwest Territory supreme court, 1790; U.S.
District Judge for Tennessee, 1797-1802; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1802-33;
resigned 1833; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 1802-33;
resigned 1833.
Died near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
12, 1837 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Episcopal Church Burying
Ground; reinterment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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John Patton Erwin (1795-1857) —
also known as John P. Erwin —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Wilkes
County, N.C., January
8, 1795.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1821-22, 1834-35; postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn., 1826-29.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
27, 1857 (age 62 years, 231
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Robert Bell Castleman (1808-1886) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Davidson
County, Tenn., December
9, 1808.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1854-55; appointed 1854.
Died July 29,
1886 (age 77 years, 232
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Raphael Benjamin West (1911-1974) —
also known as Ben West —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., March
31, 1911.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1951-63.
Died November
20, 1974 (age 63 years, 234
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Robert Brownlee Currey (1774-1848) —
also known as Robert B. Currey —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in North Carolina, 1774.
Postmaster at Nashville,
Tenn., 1811-26; mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1822-24.
Died near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
8, 1848 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Jane Gray Owen. |
| | | Epitaph: "Honest, Faithful and Just";
"As he had lived, an Humble and Devoted Christian." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel Van Dyke Stout (1786-1850) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Red Stone Fort (now Brownsville), Fayette
County, Pa., April
18, 1786.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1840-42.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
8, 1850 (age 64 years, 112
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Andrew Anderson (c.1796-1867) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in New Jersey, about 1796.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1855-57.
Died April
15, 1867 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Williamson Hartley Horn (1799-1870) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., July 15,
1799.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1852-54.
Died March 8,
1870 (age 70 years, 236
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Thomas Crutcher (1760-1844) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Virginia, February
18, 1760.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1819-20.
Died March 8,
1844 (age 84 years, 19
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Thomas B. Coleman (c.1795-1848) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born about 1795.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1842-43.
Died in 1848
(age about
53 years).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Wilkins F. Tannehill (1787-1858) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March 2,
1787.
Newspaper
editor; author; mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1825-26.
Member, Freemasons.
Died June 2,
1858 (age 71 years, 92
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Matthias Ward (1805-1861) —
of Texas.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., October
13, 1805.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1842-44; member of Texas
state senate, 1849-50; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1858-59.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Warm Springs (now Hot Springs), Madison
County, N.C., October
5, 1861 (age 55 years, 357
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Alexander Allison (c.1799-1862) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born about 1799.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1847-48.
Died November
3, 1862 (age about 63
years).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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William Booker Shapard (1797-1870) —
also known as William B. Shapard —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Virginia, November
5, 1797.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1854.
Died January
19, 1870 (age 72 years, 75
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Powhaten Woolridge Maxey (1810-1876) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born May 7,
1810.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1843-44.
Died August
8, 1876 (age 66 years, 93
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Robert Coleman Foster (1769-1844) —
also known as Robert C. Foster —
of Tennessee.
Born in Virginia, July 8,
1769.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1803-07; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1805-07; member
of Tennessee
state senate, 1809-15, 1825-27; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1813-15, 1825-27; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1815, 1817.
Christian.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., September
27, 1844 (age 75 years, 81
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Thomas Claiborne (1780-1856) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., May 17,
1780.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1811-15, 1831-33; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1813-15; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1817-19.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
7, 1856 (age 75 years, 235
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (1812-1862) —
also known as Felix K. Zollicoffer —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Bigbyville, Maury
County, Tenn., May 19,
1812.
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1849; fought a pistol duel
with rival editor John L. Martin, in Nashville, Tenn., 1852; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1853-59; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Shot
and killed in a Civil
War battle near Mill Springs, Wayne
County, Ky., January
19, 1862 (age 49 years, 245
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery; cenotaph at Zollicoffer
Park Cemetery, Near Nancy, Pulaski County, Ky.
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Samuel E. Hogg (1783-1842) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Caswell
County, N.C., April
18, 1783.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1813-15; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1817-19.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Rutherford
County, Tenn., May 28,
1842 (age 59 years, 40
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Andrew Ewing (1813-1864) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 17,
1813.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1849-51; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1860.
Slaveowner.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., June 16,
1864 (age 50 years, 365
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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W. B. A. Ramsey (1799-1874) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., 1799.
Lawyer;
newspaper
publisher; steamboat
business; mayor
of Knoxville, Tenn., 1838-39; secretary
of state of Tennessee, 1847-55.
Died in Davidson
County, Tenn., 1874
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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Thomas Lanier Williams (1782-1856) —
Born in Surry
County, N.C., February
1, 1782.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1820; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1826.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
3, 1856 (age 74 years, 306
days).
Interment at Nashville City Cemetery.
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| Politicians formerly
buried here: |
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Joseph Thorpe Elliston (1779-1856) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., December
15, 1779.
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1813-17.
Died November
10, 1856 (age 76 years, 331
days).
Original interment at Nashville City Cemetery; reinterment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
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| Other politicians who
have (or had) monuments here: |
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William Armstrong (c.1795-1847) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born about 1795.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1828-32.
Died near Pine Bluff, Jefferson
County, Ark., June 12,
1847 (age about 52
years).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Swallow
Rock Cemetery, Fort Coffee, Okla.; cenotaph at Nashville City
Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Nancy Irwin. |
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Polk Place
Grounds (now gone)
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
| Politicians formerly
buried here: |
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James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died, of cholera,
in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds; reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee State Capitol Grounds; cenotaph at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah
Childress (daughter of Joel
Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas
Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall
Tate Polk and Tasker
Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin
Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk
(who married George
Davis) and Richard
Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus
King Polk and Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond
R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk and Augustus
Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Fawcett Polk. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Polk
City, Florida, is named for
him. — The city
of Polk
City, Iowa, is named for
him. — The borough
of Polk,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Alexandria,
Virginia, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
— James
K. P. Fenner
— J.
K. P. Marshall
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Sarah Polk (1803-1891) —
also known as Sarah Childress —
Born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford
County, Tenn., September
4, 1803.
First
Lady of the United States, 1845-49.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
14, 1891 (age 87 years, 344
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds; reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee State Capitol Grounds.
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Spring Hill
Cemetery
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Roy Claxton Acuff (1903-1992) —
also known as Roy Acuff; "The King of Country
Music" —
of Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tenn.
Born in Maynardville, Union
County, Tenn., September
15, 1903.
Republican. Country
musician; co-founder of Acuff-Rose Publication Company, the first
country music publishing
house; appeared in seven Hollywood movies
in the 1940s; owner and operator of Dunbar Cave Hotel
near Nashville; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1960.
Elected to Country Music Hall of
Fame, 1962.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
23, 1992 (age 89 years, 69
days).
Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery.
|
State Capitol
Grounds
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) —
also known as Edward W. Carmack —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Castalian Springs, Sumner
County, Tenn., November
5, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1885; editor of newspapers,
including the Nashville American, the Memphis
Commercial, and the Nashville Tennesseean; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1896,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1897-1901; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1901-07; candidate for nomination for Governor of
Tennessee, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by
Robin J. Cooper, whose father, Col. Duncan B. Cooper, had been
ridiculed in the Tennesseean, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
9, 1908 (age 50 years, 4
days). Robin and Duncan Cooper were convicted of second-degree
murder and sentenced to prison, but Duncan Cooper was pardoned, and
Robin Cooper's conviction was overturned on appeal; in 1919, Robin
Cooper was himself murdered in an apparent robbery.
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tenn.; statue (now gone) at State
Capitol Grounds.
|
Tennessee State
Capitol Grounds
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
here: |
|
James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died, of cholera,
in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds
(which no longer exists); reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee State
Capitol Grounds; cenotaph at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tenn.
| | |
Relatives: Son
of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah
Childress (daughter of Joel
Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas
Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall
Tate Polk and Tasker
Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin
Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk
(who married George
Davis) and Richard
Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus
King Polk and Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond
R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk and Augustus
Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Fawcett Polk. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Polk
City, Florida, is named for
him. — The city
of Polk
City, Iowa, is named for
him. — The borough
of Polk,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Alexandria,
Virginia, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
— James
K. P. Fenner
— J.
K. P. Marshall
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Sarah Polk (1803-1891) —
also known as Sarah Childress —
Born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford
County, Tenn., September
4, 1803.
First
Lady of the United States, 1845-49.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
14, 1891 (age 87 years, 344
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds
(which no longer exists); reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee State
Capitol Grounds.
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The
Hermitage
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) —
also known as "Old Hickory"; "The Farmer of
Tennessee"; "King Andrew the
First" —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born, in a log
cabin, in The Waxhaws, Lancaster
County, S.C., March
15, 1767.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Tennessee, 1790-97; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1796-97; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1797-98, 1823-25; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1798; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1821; President
of the United States, 1829-37; censured
by the U.S. Senate in 1834 over his removal of federal deposits from
the Bank of the United States; on January 30, 1835, while attending
funeral services at the Capitol Building for Rep. Warren
R. Davis of South Carolina, he was shot
at with two guns -- which both misfired -- by Richard Lawrence, a
house painter (later found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Killed Charles Dickinson in a pistol duel,
May 30, 1806; also dueled
with Thomas
Hart Benton and Waightstill
Avery. Elected in 1910 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died, of dropsy (congestive
heart failure), in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 8,
1845 (age 78 years, 85
days).
Interment at The Hermitage; statue erected 1853 at Lafayette
Park, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1856 at Jackson
Square, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson (1730-1767) and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson;
married, January
17, 1794, to Rachel (Donelson) Robards (aunt of Andrew
Jackson Donelson). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Caffery
family of Louisiana (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
P. Blair |
| | | Jackson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Tenn., Tex., W.Va. and Wis., and Hickory County,
Mo., are named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Andrew
J. Donelson
— Andrew
Jackson Miller
— Andrew
J. Faulk
— Andrew
Jackson Titus
— Andrew
Jackson Isacks
— Andrew
Jackson Hamilton
— Andrew
J. Harlan
— Andrew
J. Kuykendall
— Andrew
J. Thayer
— Elam
A. J. Greeley
— Andrew
Jackson Ingle
— Andrew
J. Ogle
— Andrew
Jackson Carr
— Andrew
J. Waterman
— Andrew
J. Bentley
— Andrew
J. Rogers
— William
A. J. Sparks
— Andrew
Jackson Poppleton
— Andrew
J. Hunter
— Andrew
Jackson Bryant
— Andrew
J. Beale
— A.
J. Clements
— Andrew
Jackson Baker
— Andrew
J. Felt
— A. J.
King
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
Jackson Greenfield
— Andrew
Jackson Caldwell
— Andrew
Jackson Gahagan
— Andrew
Jackson Biship
— Andrew
Jackson Houston
— Andrew
Jackson Speer
— Andrew
J. Cobb
— Andrew
J. Montague
— Andrew
J. Barchfeld
— Andrew
J. Balliet
— Andrew
J. Kirk
— Andrew
J. Livingston
— A.
J. Sherwood
— Andrew
Jackson Stewart
— Andrew
J. May
— Andrew
J. McConnico
— Andrew
J. Sawyer
— Andrew
J. Brewer
— Andrew
J. Dunning, Jr.
— Andrew
Bettwy
— Andrew
J. Transue
— Andrew
Jackson Graves
— Andrew
Jackson Gilbert
— Andrew
J. Goodwin
— Andrew
J. Hinshaw
— Andy
Young
— Andrew
Jackson Kupper
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $20 bill; from the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
appeared on on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $5 to $10,000. In 1861, his portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes.
|
| | | Campaign slogan: "Let the people
rule." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about Andrew Jackson: Robert
Vincent Remini, The
Life of Andrew Jackson — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832 —
Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Democracy,
1833-1845 — Robert Vincent Remini, Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 —
Andrew Burstein, The
Passions of Andrew Jackson — David S. Heidler & Jeanne
T. Heidler, Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for
Empire — Donald B. Cole, The
Presidency of Andrew Jackson — H. W. Brands, Andrew
Jackson : His Life and Times — Jon Meacham, American
Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Andrew
Jackson, Hero |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Woodlawn Memorial
Park
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
here: |
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James Percy Priest (1900-1956) —
also known as J. Percy Priest —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Carter's Creek, Maury
County, Tenn., April 1,
1900.
Democrat. School
teacher; newspaper
work; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1941-56 (5th District 1941-43, 6th
District 1943-53, 5th District 1953-56); died in office 1956.
Died, in a hospital
at Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., October
12, 1956 (age 56 years, 194
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Clifford Robertson Allen (1912-1978) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., January
6, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1949-51, 1955-59; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1958 (Democratic primary); delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1971; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 5th District, 1975-78; died in
office 1978.
Methodist.
Member, Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 18,
1978 (age 66 years, 163
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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A. V. McLane (1873-1968) —
of Lewisburg, Marshall
County, Tenn.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Belfast, Marshall
County, Tenn., August
31, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; postmaster
at Lewisburg,
Tenn., 1910-13; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1912,
1920
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1924
(alternate), 1928
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1936
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1956,
1960;
U.S.
Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1922-33.
Died in Carlsbad, Eddy
County, N.M., August
31, 1968 (age 95 years, 0
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Joseph Carlton Loser (1892-1984) —
also known as J. Carlton Loser —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., October
1, 1892.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1944
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1952,
1960;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 5th District, 1957-63.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Kiwanis.
Died July 31,
1984 (age 91 years, 304
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Louis James Garner (1852-1940) —
also known as Louis J. Garner; Lewis J.
Garner —
of Cookeville, Putnam
County, Tenn.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Buffalo Valley, Putnam
County, Tenn., October
9, 1852.
Republican. Postmaster at Cookeville,
Tenn., 1901-07.
Died, in Nashville General Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
19, 1940 (age 87 years, 102
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Ruby Roach McLane (1880-1953) —
also known as Ruby D. Roach; Mrs. A. V.
McLane —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Tennessee, November
18, 1880.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1924;
member of Republican
National Committee from Tennessee, 1939-40.
Female.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
22, 1953 (age 73 years, 34
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Dick Latta Lansden Jr. (1909-1999) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born October
17, 1909.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee,
1952.
Died February
12, 1999 (age 89 years, 118
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Carey T. Duckett —
of Kentucky.
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1944.
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Mary M. Anderson (1921-2005) —
also known as Mary Virginia Mize —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born February
2, 1921.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1963-64.
Female.
Died August
15, 2005 (age 84 years, 194
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Tusculum Baptist
Church Grounds
Near Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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