Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee

Date: 1856 [unknown]
Location: Nashville, Tennessee

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Notable Interments

Adelicia Acklen, plantation and slave owner.
John Meredith Bass, Mayor of Nashville from 1833 to 1834, and again in 1869.
William B. Bate, Governor of Tennessee (1883 to 1887), American Civil War general.
Fannie Battle, Confederate spy and social reformer
John Bell, United States Senator and presidential candidate
Aaron V. Brown, Governor of Tennessee (1845 to 1847), United States Postmaster General from 1857 to 1859
James Stephens Brown, Mayor of Nashville from 1908 to 1909.
Lytle Brown, major general in the U.S. Army.
George P. Buell, Union Army general
Joseph Wellington Byrns, United States Congressman and Speaker of the House
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".
Clarence Kelley Colley (1869-1956), architect.^[1]
Washington Bogart Cooper (1802–1888), painter.
George A. Dickel (1818–1894), liquor dealer and wholesaler
Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955), women's suffrage activist.
Guilford Dudley, U.S. ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations.
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 Burlington plantation, fourth mayor of Nashville from 1814 to 1817.
Jesse Babcock Ferguson, onetime minister of the Nashville Church of Christ, later associated with Spiritualism and Universalism
Thomas Frist, co-founder of Hospital Corporation of America and father of the former majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Bill Frist
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.
Sidney Clarence Garrison (1885-1945), second President of Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University) from 1938 to 1945.
Meredith Poindexter Gentry, United States Congressman
Carl Giers, early photographer
Alvan Cullem Gillem, Civil War Union general and post-bellum Indian fighter
Vern Gosdin 1934–2009 country music legend
William Crane Gray, (1835–1919), First Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary Jurisdiction of Southern Florida
Felix Grundy (1775–1840), U.S. Senator from Tennessee and 13th Attorney General of the United States.
George Blackmore Guild (1834–1917), Mayor of Nashville from 1891 to 1895.
Robert Kennon Hargrove (1829–1905), a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Henry C. Hibbs (1882–1949), architect.
E. Bronson Ingram, 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
Howell Edmunds Jackson, United States Senator and Supreme Court Justice
William Hicks Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil War
Thomas A. Kercheval, Tennessee State Senator and Mayor of Nashville
Eugene C. Lewis, engineer, chairman of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, civic leader.
David Lipscomb, founder of Nashville Bible School (now Lipscomb University).
William Litterer (1834–1917), Mayor of Nashville from 1890 to 1891.
George Maney, Confederate Civil War general and U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay
Jack C. Massey, co-founder of Hospital Corporation of America and owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Hill McAlister, Governor of Tennessee from 1933 to 1937
Randal William McGavock (1826–1863), Mayor of Nashville from 1858 to 1859 and Confederate Lt. Colonel who was killed in the Battle of Raymond.
Eliza Jane McKissack (1828–1900), founding head of music in 1890 to the forerunner of the University of North Texas College of Music
Benton McMillin, Governor of Tennessee (1899 to 1903)
Kindred Jenkins Morris (1819–1884), Mayor of Nashville from 1869 to 1871.^[2]
Thomas Owen Morris (1845–1924), Mayor of Nashville from 1906 to 1908.
John W. Morton, Confederate veteran, founder of the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, Tennessee Secretary of State from 1901 to 1909.
William Nichol (1800–1878), Mayor of Nashville from 1835 to 1837.
John Overton, friend of Andrew Jackson and one of the founders of Memphis, Tennessee.
Bruce Ryburn Payne (1874-1937), founding president of Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University) from 1911 to 1937.
Colonel Buckner H. Payne (1799-1889), clergyman, publisher, merchant and racist pamphleteer.
Fountain E. Pitts (1808-1874), Methodist minister, Confederate chaplain and colonel, first pastor of the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville.
James E. Rains, American Civil War general killed in the 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro
Fred Rose, music publishing executive.
William Percy Sharpe (1871–1942), Mayor of Nashville from 1922 to 1924.
John Hugh Smith (1819–1870), Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee three times, from 1845 to 1846, from 1850 to 1853, and from 1862 to 1865.
Donald W. Southgate (1887-1953), architect
Edward Bushrod Stahlman (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
George D. Waller (1883-1969), architect.
George Dury (1817-1894), Portrait painter.
David K. Wilson (1919-2007), businessman and philanthropist; major donor to Vanderbilt University and the Republican Party.
Sarah Polk Fall (1847-1924) Nashville socialite and unofficially adopted daughter to former first Lady Sarah Polk.

Sources

↑ Clarence Kelly “C. K.” Colley on Find A Grave: Memorial #11332897
↑ K. J. Morris on Find A Grave: Memorial #35002635