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 CatholicCalvary Cemetery. It is open to the public during daylight hours.
Visitors to Nashville were buried alongside paupers.[1]
Confederate circle
After the American Civil War, "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.[1] It was used for the interment of Confederate soldiers who had died on nearby battlegrounds and as a memorial to their sacrifice.[1] 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.[3] The memorial association arranged for burials of about 1,500 soldiers at Confederate Circle.[1] They also built an obelisk.[1]
Stone Obelisk Marking Confederate Graves at Mt. Olivet Cemetery Confederate Circle, Nashville
World War I and beyond
A plaque in memory of Nashvillians who died in World War I was dedicated by General Hugh Mott in 1924.[1]
The cemetery was purchased by Stewart Enterprises in 1994.[1]
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[11]
Colonel Buckner H. Payne (1799–1889), clergyman, publisher, merchant and racist pamphleteer.[15]
Fountain E. Pitts (1808–1874), Methodist minister, Confederate chaplain and colonel, first pastor of the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville.[16]
James E. Rains, American Civil War general killed in the 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro
Oliver P. Rood, American Civil War soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
^Estill Curtis Pennington, Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802–1920 : Featuring Works from Filson Historical Society, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2011, p. 122 [1]
^"Elliston, Joseph Thorp (1779–1856)". Tennessee Portrait Project. National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
^Logsdon, David R. (December 25, 2009). "Erskine Bronson Ingram". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved September 5, 2017.