Mount Ararat Cemetery is a historic cemetery in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of muni ...

established in 1867 by and for African Americans. A historical marker commemorates its history. In 1983 it was acquired by Greenwood Cemetery. One of the most notable markers is the grave of the Reverend Nelson Merry, the founding pastor of the First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, in Nashville.

Notable burials

William Edmondson William Edmondson (c. 1874–1951) was the first African-American folk art sculptor to be given a one-person show exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1937). Biography Edmondson was born sometime in December 1874 on the Compt ...

sculptor * Nelson Walker, businessman * Moses McKissack III, architect

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