DUNN - CROFT CEMETERY (GRASSMERE)

 

AN-79: NASHVILLE, DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN, NOLENSVILLE RD

 

12 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS

 

DUNN                                                Died: 1836                                                       

Front inscription: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JOHN R. DUNN/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE/ CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SEPT. 29^TH / 1836/ AGED 33 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AND 19/ DAYS/ HE WAS HIGHLY ESTEEMED AND GREATLY/ LAMENTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM/ HIS REMAINS WERE REMOVED TO THIS/ PLACE BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FATHER/ IN 1839    

                                                                                                            

DUNN                                                Died: 1837                                                       

Front inscription: HERE LIES THE BODY OF/ ELIZABETH DUNN/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ ON THE 11^TH  DAY OF NOVEMBER 1837/ AGED 56 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS/ HER BEREAVED HUSBAND/ MICHAEL C. DUNN/ ERECTS THIS TOMB TO HER MEMORY WITH/ WHOM HE LIVED 36 YEARS 1 MONTH AND/ 15 DAYS: FULFILLING ALL THE DUTIES OF/ AN AFFECTIONATE WIFE, TENDER PARENT/ KIND MISTRESS AND DEVOUT CHRISTIAN/ HALLOWED BY HER MEMORY   

                                                                                                                                     

DUNN                                                Died: 1853                                                       

Front inscription: MICHAEL C. DUNN/ DIED AUG. 22 1853/ AGE 83 YR'S, 4 MO'S. &/ 26 DAYS./ HE WAS A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA/ AND A RESIDENT OF DAVIDSON/ CO. TENN. FOR MORE THAN/ HALF A CENTURY./ THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED/ BY HIS CHILDREN IN MEMORY/ OF A DEVOTED FATHER/ LIFE'S DUTY DONE, AS SINKS THE DAY/ LIGHT FROM US LORD THE SPIRIT FLIES/ WHILE HEAVEN AND EARTH COMBINED TO SAY/ HOW BLEST HE RIGHTOUS WHEN HE DIES                                                                                                                             

 

HAMILTON                                       Died: 1855                                                       

Front inscription: IN MEMORY OF/ JAMES WATSON/ SON OF/ JAMES W. & MARY E./ HAMILTON/ WHO DIED/ AUGUST 21^ST , 1855;/ AGED TWO YEARS/ &/ 2 1/2 MONTHS  

                                                                                                       

HAMILTON         Born: 1840          Died: 1846                                                       

Front inscription: IN/ MEMORY OF/ ELIZABETH HANNA/ DAUGHTER OF/ JAMES W. & MARY E./ HAMILTON/ BORN 6^TH  NOV 1840/ DIED 3^RD  MARCH 1846/ AGED 5 YEARS 3 MONTHS/ AND 27 DAYS/ (REST OF INSCRIPTION ILLEGIBLE) 

                                                                                                                 

LYON                                                 Died: 1832                                                       

Front inscription: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ELIZA LYON/ WIFE OF/ ALPHEUS LYON/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ MAY 28^TH , 1832/ AGED 26 YEARS AND 20 DAYS/ EARLY REMOV'D FROM LIFE'S 'IMBILING WOES/ BENEATH THE CLOD HER MOULDING LIMBS REPOSE/ HER SPIRIT PURE AS WING'D ITS AIRY FLIGHT/ AND SOAR'D TO REALMS OF EVERLASTING LIGHT                                                                                                          

Footstone: YES   Footstone inscription: E. L.            

 

DUNN                                                Died: 1827                                                       

Front inscription: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ SUSANNAH DUNN/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ THE 23^RD  OF JUNE 1827/ AGED FOURTEEN YEARS/ AND ONE MONTH/ SHE HAD THE ORNAMENT OF A MEEK/ AND QUIET SPIRIT WHICH IS IN THE/ SIGHT OF GOD OF GREAT PRICE/ THIS LOVELY BUD SO YOUNG AND FAIR/ CALL'D HENCE BY EARLY DOOM./ JUST CAME TO SHOW HOW SWEET A FLOWER/ IN PARADISE WOULD BLOOM.                             

Footstone: YES   Footstone inscription: ILLEGIBLE              

 

 

LOWE                                                Died: 1841                                                       

Front inscription: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ CHRISTIANA A. LOWE/ WIFE OF/ JOHN LOWE/ AND DAUGHTER OF/ M. C. DUNN/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ IN HARRISON COUNTY/ TEXAS/ JULY THE 22^ND , 1841/ AGED 22 YEARS, 8 MONTHS/ AND 9 DAYS/ UNVEIL THY BOSOM FAITHFUL TOMB/ TAKE THIS NEW TREASURE TO THY TRUST;/ AND GIVE THESE SACRED RELICS ROOM,/ TO SLUMBER IN THE SILENT DUST. 

                                                                                                              

BLOCKER           Born: 1845          Died: 1854                                                       

WILLIAM RUFUS/ SON OF/ JOHN R. & ANNE/ E. BLOCKER/ BORN NOV. 1 1845/ DIED JUNE 17, 1854                                                                                                              

Footstone: YES   Footstone inscription: W R B         

 

CROFT                 Born: 1894          Died: 1985                                                       

Front inscription: ELISE CROFT/ OCTOBER 5, 1894/ FEBRUARY 23, 1985   

                                                                                                        

CROFT                 Born: 1889          Died: 1974                                                       

Front inscription: MARGARET CROFT/ SEPTEMBER 29, 1889/ JULY 4, 1974       

                                                                                                               

SHUTE                 Born: 1837          Died: 1872                                                       

Front inscription: LAVINIA LAFAYETTE/ WIFE OF/ W. D. SHUTE/ DAUGHTER OF/ ISAAC & LAVINIA H./ HILLIARD,/ BORN/ APR. 15, 1837/ DIED/ JUNE 30, 1872

                                                      

 

 

SITE SURVEYED OCTOBER 30, 2001

 

Additions to Dunn-Croft Cemetery (Grassmere).  AN-79

 

Obituary. Nashville Republican Banner

Monday, November 13, 1837

            FATAL ACCIDENT

            Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, the respected lady of

            Michael C. Dunn, Esq., of this vicinity, was sudden-           

            ly killed on Saturday evening, by springing from her

            carriage,while the horses were running off.  We

            have not been able to learn all the particulars of this

            melancholy occurrence, but understand that as the

            carriage, containing Mrs. Dunn and her two daugh- 

            ters, Miss Dunn and Mrs. John Thompson, was re-

            turning from town, on the Franklin Turnpike, the

            horses took fright, and the two first named ladies at-

            tempted to alight from the door.  Miss Dunn was

            severely (though we hope not dangerously) injured,

            and her mother almost instantly killed.  Her funeral

            took place at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr.

            Thompson, last evening.  

                        The deceased was the wife of one of the oldest

            and most respectable farmers of this county, and an

            exemplary member of the Presbyterian Congrega-

            tion of Nashville.  It is seldom fallen to our lot to

record a death so sudden and afflicting.

 

Mt. Olivet Cemetery Interment Records, Nashville, Tennessee. 

On March 20, 1916, Lot 59 Section 15 was purchased for the Shute family. :

   Buried March 23, 1916.  William D. Shute. 81 Years

   Buried  March 24, 1916  (moved from family burying ground)

       William D Shute, Jr.

        Lavinia H. Shute

        Infant of Marshall & Lavinia Shute Hotchkiss

The “family burying ground” was the cemetery at Grassmere.  The tombstone at Grassmere for Lavinia Hilliard Shute (Mrs. Wm.D. Shute) was not relocated to the Shute family lot at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. No markers for these Shute family members are on the Mt. Olivet lot (2008).

 

Additions to Dunn-Croft Cemetery (Grassmere) web site listing. February 2008