MT. OLIVET CEMETERY. Historical Information
(Not Surveyed in Davidson County Cemetery Project)
Mt. Olivet Cemetery is located at 1101 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, Tennessee. The Cemetery covers 203 acres. The brochure on Mt. Olivet Cemetery states:
Mount Olivet Cemetery has an impressive history dating back to 1856. It
was established under a charter contained in an Act of The General Assembly
of the State of Tennessee that was passed on February 18, 1856… Many famous historical figures and prominent citizens are interred at Mount Olivet. U. S. Supreme Court Justices Howell E. Jackson and John Catron are buried in the cemetery. Tennessee governors Aaron Brown, William Bate, Benton McMillin and Hill McAlister are also buried here…
The visitor to Mt. Olivet Cemetery may stop at the Administration Office to pick up a tour leaflet for the historic area of the cemetery. The addition of the Mount Olivet Funeral Home in 1996, on the grounds, opened a new chapter in history of the cemetery.
Nashville Daily Patriot, Wednesday morning, November 12, 1856
Mount Olivet Cemetery
The Directors of this Company now announce to the Public
that this Cemetery has been laid off with avenues and walks
and a portion of the grounds subdivided into Family Lots
which are now offered for sale. The maps of the Grounds
may be seen at the office of Lindsley & Crockett, where the
Public are invited to call and examine the same. The
Company feel confident that they could not have made more
suitable location for a Cemetery in the vicinity of Nashville,
and pledge themselves to the public to spare no money or
pains to make it equal to any Cemetery in the Union, and
such a one as Nashville may feel some pride in… The
Directors of the Company are desirous that the grounds
should be visited by the Citizens of Nashville, and for that
purpose an omnibus will leave the office of Lindsley &
Crockett, at 4 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon the 8th instant
and on every Friday afternoon thereafter at the same hour.
The seats will be free. Ladies and Families desirous of visiting
the grounds, will be called for at their residences by sending
their cards to the President of the Company.
A.V.S. Lindsley, President C.W. Nance, Sec’y
Microfilm records of Mt. Olivet Cemetery Interments, Lot Ownership and Lot Maps are available for research at the Metro Archives on 3801 Green Hills Village Drive, Tennessee State Library and Archives at 403 Seventh Avenue North, and the Nashville Room, Public Library at 615 Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee.
RESEARCH REPORT. March 23, 2005
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