Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 206-acre (83 ha) cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is located approximately two miles East of downtown Nashville, and adjacent to the Catholic Calvary Cemetery. It is open to the public during daylight hours.
Location
1101 Lebanon Pike
Nashville, Tennessee
November 25, 2005
History[edit]
Antebellum era[edit]
The Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke in 1856.[1] It was modelled after the Mount Auburn Cemetery.[1] In the 1870s, a chapel designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style by Hugh Cathcart Thompson was built as an office.[2]
The Southern aristocracy was buried in a separate section from common folks.[1] These included planters as well as former governors of Tennessee, U.S. Senators, and U.S. Congressional Representatives. In the antebellum era, slaves were often buried near their owners.[1]
acclaimed scientist whose experiments proved that DNA is the substance that carried genes.
Oswald Avery
(1788–1872), cattleman, planter, and "Wool King of the World".
Mark R. Cockrill
(1869–1956), architect.
Clarence Kelley Colley
(1818–1894), liquor dealer and wholesaler
George A. Dickel
U.S. ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations.[1]
Guilford Dudley
(18171894), portrait painter
George Dury
(1830–1904), Tennessee Secretary of State, briefly served as the state's "acting governor" in 1865
Edward H. East
(1779–1856), silversmith, owner of the Burlington plantation, fourth mayor of Nashville, 1814–17[9]
Joseph Thorpe Elliston
(1898–1973), American clubwoman
Cornelia Keeble Ewing
(1847–1924) Nashville socialite and unofficially adopted daughter of former first Lady Sarah Polk
Sarah Polk Fall
onetime minister of the Nashville Church of Christ, later associated with Spiritualism and Universalism
Jesse Babcock Ferguson
co-founder of Hospital Corporation of America and father of the former majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Bill Frist
Thomas Frist
(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.[1]
Francis Furman
(1885–1945), second President of Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University), 1938–45[10]
Sidney Clarence Garrison
early photographer
Carl Giers
Civil War Union general and post-bellum Indian fighter
Alvan Cullem Gillem
1934–2009 country music legend
Vern Gosdin
(1835–1919), First Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary Jurisdiction of Southern Florida
William Crane Gray
(1775–1840), U.S. Senator from Tennessee and 13th Attorney General of the United States.[1]
Felix Grundy
(1882–1949), architect.
Henry C. Hibbs
founder of Ingram Industries Inc., parent company of Ingram Barge Company; Ingram Book Company, the nation's largest book distributor; Ingram Micro; and other major companies[11]
E. Bronson Ingram
Confederate general during the American Civil War
William Hicks Jackson
Confederate Civil War general and U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay
George Maney
co-founder of Hospital Corporation of America and owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken.[12]
Jack C. Massey
(1826–1863), Mayor of Nashville, 1858–59 and Confederate Lt. Colonel who was killed in the Battle of Raymond.[5]
Randal William McGavock
(1828–1900), founding head of music in 1890 to the forerunner of the University of North Texas College of Music
Eliza Jane McKissack
(1819–1884), Mayor of Nashville, 1869–71.
Kindred Jenkins Morris
Confederate veteran, founder of the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, Tennessee Secretary of State, 1901–09.[13]
John W. Morton
(1854–1909), Louisiana Congressman
Andrew Price (politician)
(1874–1937), founding president of Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University), 1911–37.[14]
Bruce Ryburn Payne
(1808–1874), Methodist minister, Confederate chaplain and colonel, first pastor of the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville.[16]
Fountain E. Pitts
American Civil War general killed in the 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro
James E. Rains
American Civil War soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
Oliver P. Rood
(1843–1930), German-born railroad executive, publisher of the Nashville Banner and builder of The Stahlman.[18]
Edward Bushrod Stahlman
country music performer
Ernest Stoneman
(1854–1936), Methodist clergyman and educator; dean of Vanderbilt's theology school
Wilbur Fisk Tillett
(1783–1864), ironmaster
Anthony Wayne Van Leer
(1919–2007), businessman and philanthropist; major donor to Vanderbilt University and the Republican Party
David K. Wilson
Greenwood Cemetery
Willis, Ridley II (1993). A Walking Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nashville, Tennessee: The Cemetery. 29231889.