Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery located in

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. It is located approximately two miles East of downtown Nashville, and adjacent to the

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Cemetery. It is open to the public during daylight hours.

History

Antebellum era

The Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke in 1856. It was modelled after the

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. In the 1870s, a chapel designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style by Hugh Cathcart Thompson was built as an office. The Southern aristocracy was buried in a separate section from common folks. These included planters as well as former governors of Tennessee, U.S. Senators, and U.S. Congressional Representatives. In the

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, slaves were often buried near their owners. Confederate Circle at Mount Olivet Cemetery Nashville TN 2013-07-20 001

Visitors to Nashville were buried alongside paupers.

Confederate circle

After the

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, "the Ladies Memorial Society of Nashville with surviving Confederate veterans such as William B. Bate, Daniel Carter, General Benjamin Cheatham, and Thomas Harding purchased 26,588 square feet in the center of Mount Olivet and established Confederate Circle" for the interment of Confederate dead. It was used for the interment of Confederate soldiers who had died on nearby battlegrounds and as a memorial to their sacrifice. Women organized such memorial associations and raised money for interment of Confederate soldiers in major cities across the South and areas where there were concentrations of bodies. The memorial association arranged for burials of about 1,500 soldiers at Confederate Circle. They also built an obelisk. ConfederateObeliskNashville

World War I and beyond

A plaque in memory of Nashvillians who died in

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was dedicated by General

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in 1924. The cemetery was purchased by Stewart Enterprises in 1994. On January 25, 2015, the chapel, by then listed on the

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, burned.

Notable burials

* Adelicia Acklen, plantation and slave owner. * Emma Louise Ashford, American

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, composer, and music editor * Oswald Avery, acclaimed scientist whose experiments proved that DNA is the substance that carried genes. * John Meredith Bass, Mayor of Nashville from 1833–34, and in 1869. * William B. Bate, Governor of Tennessee (1883–87),

general. * Fannie Battle, Confederate spy and social reformer * John Bell, United States

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candidate * Aaron V. Brown, Governor of Tennessee (1845–47),

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from 1857–59 *

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, Mayor of Nashville from 1908–09 * Lytle Brown, major general in the U.S. Army *

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general *

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, United States

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* John Catron, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. * Benjamin F. ("Frank") Cheatham, Confederate general during the American Civil War. * Mark R. Cockrill (1788–1872), cattleman, planter, and "Wool King of the World". *

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(1869–1956), architect. * Washington Bogart Cooper (1802–1888), painter. *

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(1831-1911), missionary and church worker * George A. Dickel (1818–1894), liquor dealer and wholesaler *

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(18171894), portrait painter * Edward H. East (1830–1904), Tennessee Secretary of State, briefly served as the state's "acting governor" in 1865 * Joseph Thorpe Elliston (1779–1856), silversmith, owner of the

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, fourth mayor of Nashville, 1814–17 *

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(1847–1924) Nashville socialite and unofficially adopted daughter of former first Lady

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, onetime minister of the Nashville

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, later associated with

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* Thomas Frist, co-founder of

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and father of the former

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of the U.S. Senate,

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* Francis Furman (1816–1899), Nashville businessman during the Reconstruction era. His tomb, designed by sculptor Johannes Gelert (1852–1923), is the largest one in Mount Olivet Cemetery. *

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(1885–1945), second President of

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(now part of

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), 1938–45 *

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, United States

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, early photographer *

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* Vern Gosdin 1934–2009 country music legend *

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from Tennessee and 13th

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. *

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(1829–1905), a

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of the

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(1882–1949), architect. * E. Bronson Ingram, founder of Ingram Industries Inc., parent company of

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; Ingram Book Company, the nation's largest book distributor; Ingram Micro; and other major companies * Howell Edmunds Jackson, United States

and

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Justice * William Hicks Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil War * Thomas A. Kercheval, Tennessee State Senator and

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, engineer, chairman of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, civic leader. *

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, founder of

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(now

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). *

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(1834–1917), Mayor of Nashville, 1890–91. *

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, co-founder of

and owner of

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. * Hill McAlister, Governor of Tennessee from 1933–37 *

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(1826–1863), Mayor of Nashville, 1858–59 and Confederate Lt. Colonel who was killed in the Battle of Raymond. *

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* Benton McMillin, Governor of Tennessee (1899–1903) * Kindred Jenkins Morris (1819–1884), Mayor of Nashville, 1869–71. *

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(1845–1924), Mayor of Nashville, 1906–08. * John W. Morton, Confederate veteran, founder of the Nashville chapter of the

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, Tennessee Secretary of State, 1901–09. * William Nichol (1800–1878), Mayor of Nashville, 1835–37. *

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, friend of

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and one of the founders of

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. * Andrew Price (politician) (1854–1909), Louisiana Congressman *

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(1874–1937), founding president of

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(1808–1874), Methodist minister, Confederate chaplain and colonel, first pastor of the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville. *

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, American Civil War general killed in the 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro *

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, American Civil War soldier, Medal of Honor recipient * Fred Rose, music publishing executive * Thomas "Tom" Ryman (1841–1904) Nashville riverboat captain and founder of the

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(1819–1870), Mayor of Nashville three times during the 19th century *

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(1887–1953), architect *

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(1843–1930), German-born railroad executive, publisher of the '' Nashville Banner'' and builder of The Stahlman. * Ernest Stoneman, country music performer * Wilbur Fisk Tillett (1854–1936), Methodist clergyman and educator; dean of Vanderbilt's theology school *

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(1783-1864), ironmaster *

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(1883–1969), architect. * David K. Wilson (1919–2007), businessman and philanthropist; major donor to

and the

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(1920–1989), country musician, member of the

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