TEMPLE CEMETERY

SPRING HILL

HILLS OF CALVARY

MT. ARARAT (NEW SECTION)

MT. ARARAT (HISTORIC)

BELLS BEND CEMETERY

BORDEAUX ADVENTIST MEMORIAL GARDENS [NEW NAME IN 2012]

BETHEL CHURCH OF CHRIST

DRY CREEK CEMETERY

COMINS-FOREHAND

NW-44

NE-43

NW-04

NE-25

NW-17

15TH AVENUE NORTH

ELM HILL PIKE

GALLATIN PIKE

ASHLAND CITY HIGHWAY

WHITES CREEK PIKE

MAINTAINED

SERIOUS DESTRUCTION BY GRAZING CATTLE

OVERGROWN

MANY TOMBSTONES HAVE SUNK INTO THE GROUND; MANY HAVE WORN-OFF INSCRIPTIONS

LOST

STONE WALL

NONE

FENCE

FENCED AND LOCKED BY METRO AIRPORT AUTHORITY

PROTECTIVE FENCING SURROUNDING THE CEMETERY

Y

NO

N

PROTECTED UNDER THE METRO PARKS ADMINISTRATION

YES

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2058

754

740

704

553

UNKNOWN

GOWER CHILD

NO NAME

HOWS

HADLEY, AMELIA

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ILLEGIBLE

FIELDSTONE

NO INSCRIPTION

NO TOMBSTONE

1781 ROBERT SCALES 1852/ 1792 SARAH P. SCALES 1853/ VIRGINIA L. SCALES/ CAROLINA M. SCALES/ CONSTANTINE SCALES/ JOSEPH HENRY SCALES/ THOMAS EDMONDSON SCALES/ NICHOLAS P. SCALES/ DANIEL PRICE SCALES/ ROBERT SCALES/ WILLIAM P. SCALES/ HARDEN SCALES/ PEGGY ANN HARRIS/ PAULINE SCALES COOPER/ TENNESSEE SCALE WILKINSON

1931

1914

1918

1928

1933

YES, NO INSCRIPTION

FATHER/ MOTHER

MOTHER

MOTHER/ FATHER

FATHER

PLAQUE ON GATEPOST OF WHITSITT PLOT

BURIED DURING THE 1800'S

INSCRIPTION PROVIDED BY VIOLA KRANTZ 6/21/2013

BURIED DURING THE 1900'S

INFORMATION FROM DESCENDANTS W. W. AND RUTH FOSTER

2004-03-11T00:00:00.000

2001-05-05T00:00:00.000

1999-12-04T00:00:00.000

2001-11-10T00:00:00.000

2002-12-16T00:00:00.000

2013-05-03T00:00:00.000

2013-06-12T00:00:00.000

2013-06-21T00:00:00.000

2015-05-31T00:00:00.000

2008-01-02T00:00:00.000

2005-02-16T00:00:00.000

2001-05-05T00:00:00.000

2013-06-29T00:00:00.000

1999-12-04T00:00:00.000

2013-05-03T00:00:00.000

FAMILY GRAVEYARD

CHURCH GRAVEYARD

COMMUNITY GRAVEYARD

MILITARY GRAVEYARD

METRO PROPERTY

TEMPLE CEMETERY RECORDS WERE SENT TO THE DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY PROJECT ON MARCH 11, 2004 BY ANNETTE RATKIN, ARCHIVIST, AND ADAM L. INLANDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE TEMPLE. TEMPLE CEMTERY WAS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IN 2004. SURVEY REPORT: 2-16-2005

689 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS WITH 740 BURIALS

551 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS WITH 704 BURIALS

AT THE INVITATION OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SPRING HILL CEMETERY, DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY VOLUNTEERS SPENT TWO DAYS IN OCTOBER 2003 AND TWO DAYS IN APRIL 2004, RECORDING THE TOMBSTONES IN THE HISTORIC SECTIONS OF THE CEMETERY. ON THESE WORK DAYS, THE INSCRIPTIONS OF 573 TOMBSTONES WITH 645 BURIALS WERE RECORDED. REPORT DATE: JULY 27, 2005; THERE WERE ALSO 109 PRE-1901 TOMBSTONES RECORDED IN TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS COMPILED BY JEANNETTE ACKLEN IN THE 1930’S, AND NOT LOCATED DURING THE DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY, REPORT: 6/29/2013

410 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS WITH 553 BURIALS; IN 1869, MT. ARARAT WAS FOUNDED BY LOCAL BLACK LEADERS AND WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN CEMETERY OPERATED IN NASHVILLE. IN 1982, THE GREENWOOD CEMETERY BOARD OF MANAGERS VOTED TO ACCEPT THE PROPERTY AND MANAGE MT. ARARAT. THE CEMETERY INTERMENT RECORDS FOR MT. ARARAT CEMETERY WERE LOST MANY YEARS AGO. A FIRST STEP IN DETERMINING THE NAMES OF THOSE BURIED IN HISTORIC MT. ARARAT ON ORR AVENUE, WAS PROVIDED BY VOLUNTEERS WITH THE DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY ON NOVEMBER 10, 2001. THE INSCRIPTIONS FROM OVER 400 TOMBSTONES WERE RECORDED ON THAT DAY. FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION WOULD BE ABLE ABLE TO UNCOVER ADDITIONAL TOMBSTONES WHICH HAVE BEEN OVERTURNED, TOPPLED, OR SUNKEN UNDERGROUND. MANY PEOPLE HAVE EMAILED TO THE DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY WEBSITE WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INTERMENT BOOKS FOR HISTORIC MT. ARARAT CEMETERY. AS OF THE DATE OF THIS REPORT, NO BURIAL RECORDS HAVE BEEN LOCATED.

DRAKE FAMILY DESCENDANTS CLEARED THE OVERGROWTH AND RESTORED THE CEMETERY DURING 2007. A REPLACEMENT TOMBSTONE WAS PROVIDED AND PLACED AT THE GRAVESITE OF JOHN DRAKE BY DOUG DRAKE (2007). INFORMATION SUBMITTED TO THE DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY BY BECKY DUNCAN. 9-11-2007

IN 2008, HILDA BARNES PROVIDED THIS HISTORICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE DRENNON-JENKINS CEMETERY: "THIS DENNON CEMETERY WAS LISTED IN THE ANNOTATED CEMETERY RECORDS OF WEST WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, PUBLISHED IN 1981. THE CEMETERY WAS CALLED DRENNAN-MCMENAWAY CEMETERY IN DAVIDSON COUNTY, ON NORTH SIDE OF STEWART'S FERRY ROAD, JUST SOUTH OF MT. JULIET ROAD. ACCORDING TO MY ELDEST SISTER, PAULINE (93 YEARS OLD IN 2008) THINKS THE CEMETERY IS ON THE PROPERTY ONCE WAS OWNED BY OUR COUSIN NAMED ALLEN JENKINS. "SUITS ME" WAS THE SIGN ON HIS FARM ENTRANCE." "SUITS ME" WAS STILL AT THE ENTRANCE IN 2006 DURING THE CEMETERY SURVEYORS' VISIT.

CLEANED BUT LIMITED RESTORATION OF STONES

NO - MANY BROKEN UNREADABLE STONES

IRON FENCE AND TOMBSTONES RE-SET

IN 1851, THE FIRST ACT OF THE FLEDGLING NASHVILLE JEWISH COMMUNITY WAS TO PURCHASE LAND FOR A CEMETERY. THIS GROUP, THE HEBREW BENEVOLENT BURIAL ASSOCIATION BECAME THE FIRST NASHVILLE JEWISH CONGREGATION, AND WAS CALLED CONGREGATION MOGEN DAVID FOR DAVIDSON COUNTY. TODAY THE CONGREGATION IS KNOWN AS THE TEMPLE, CONGREGATION OHABEL SHOLEM. THE ORIGINAL PIECE OF PROPERTY BECAME THE NUCLEUS FOR THE NINE-ACRE TEMPLE CEMETERY. HISTORY PREPARED BY ANNETTE RATKIN, ARCHIVIST FOR THE JEWISH FEDERATION AND THE TEMPLE ARCHIVES. MARCH 22, 2004

REPORT FROM MIKE SIMMONS, OCTOBER 25, 2011, TO DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY PROJECT: "ANNIE PERRY SUBMITTED THE LIST OF BURIALS AND GAVE THE NAME FOR THE CEMETERY AS THOMAS E. WILLIAMS CEMETERY. ANNIE PERRY WAS A WILLIAMS DESCENDANT. THE WILLIAMS WERE IN-LAWS OF JOHN AND SARA GRESHAM, WHO WERE MY GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS. THEIR SON WAS EUGENE C. GRESHAM WHO MARRIED ALICE GOTTO, DAUGHTER OF ANTONIO M. AND MARY (MONTGOMERY) GOTTO. EUGENE AND ALICE GRESHAM'S DAUGHTER GLADYS LOUISE GRESHAM MARRIED MY GRANDFATHER AUBREY LEE SIMMONS. PLEASE, RECORD THIS FAMILY HISTORY IN THE CEMETERY SURVEY." RESEARCH (BY FLETCH COKE) OF DEATH CERTIFICATES HELPED TO IDENTIFY THE ORIGINAL NAME OF THE CEMETERY. SARAH TENNESSEE ORMES GRESHAM, WITH DEATH DATE OF MAY 1921, WAS THE EARLIEST FAMILY MEMBER BURIED IN THE CEMETERY ON THE LIST PRESENTED BY ANNIE PERRY. CERTIFICATE OF DEATH, STATE OF TENNESSEE, LISTED HER DEATH AS MAY 10, 1922, WITH BURIAL ON MAY 11, 1922 IN THE "FAMILY BURIAL GROUNDS." THOMAS ELZIE WILLIAMS, SR., WITH DEATH DATE OF OCTOBER 21, 1951, WAS THE LAST PERSON TO BE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY ON THE LIST PRESENTED BY ANNIE PERRY. CERTIFICATE OF DEATH, STATE OF TENNESSEE, LISTED HIS DEATH AS OCTOBER 12,1951, WITH BURIAL ON OCTOBER 14, 1951, IN THE "GRESHAM CEMETERY" ON "MCCRORY CREEK ROAD."

DESTROYED BETWEEN 1960-1970, AND A BUILDING CONSTRUCTED OVER THE SITE; INFORMATION PROVIDED BY DEBIE COX, FEBRUARY 18, 2004

IN OCTOBER 2001, TELMA ANIJAR-ANDERSEN, A DESCENDANT OF JOHNSON VAUGHAN'S FAMILY, PROVIDED HISTORICAL INFORMATION. MR. VAUGHAN WAS MARRIED THREE TIMES AND LIVED IN THE AREA OF DAVIDSON COUNTY NOW CALLED VAUGHN'S GAP. HIS FIRST WIFE NANCY LOWE DIED IN 1814 AND WAS BURIED IN THE FAMILY CEMETERY WHERE HER DAUGHTER ELIZA, AGED ONE YEAR, HAD BEEN BURIED IN 1812. JOHNSON THEN MARRIED NANCY'S SISTER ELIZABETH AND THEY HAD NINE CHILDREN. ELIZABETH DIED IN 1834. SHE WAS BURIED IN THE FAMILY GRAVEYARD. ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN, NANCY D. VAUGHAN, DIED IN 1844 AND WAS BURIED IN THE FAMILY GRAVEYARD. IN 1836, JOHNSON VAUGHAN MARRIED A THIRD TIME TO ELIZABETH JANE (ANDERSON) BERRY AND THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN. JOHNSON DIED IN 1871 AND ELIZABETH IN 1876. THEY WERE BURIED IN THE FAMILY CEMETERY AND LATER RE-INTERRED IN MT. OLIVET CEMETERY. TODAY THERE ARE ONLY 2 TOMBSTONES IN THE FAMILY CEMETERY: ONE FOR ELIZABETH LOWE VAUGHAN AND ONE FOR THE TWO FIRST COUSINS ELIZA AND NANCY D. VAUGHAN.

FAMILY HISTORY. PROVIDED BY ROY NEWSOM AND JIM COLLINSWORTH. 2005/2006; EFFIE B. DAVIS WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN THOMPSON COLLINSWORTH DAVIS (1840-1913) AND HIS WIFE MARY GARRETT BINNS DAVIS. THEY HAD BEEN MARRIED ON MARCH 17, 1869. THERE WAS ONE OTHER CHILD BY THIS MARRIAGE WHOSE NAME WAS JOHNNIE GARRETT DAVIS. CHANGE OF NAME OF CEMETERY FROM EFFIE B. DAVIS CEMETERY TO THOMPSON-COLLINSWORTH-DAVIS CEMETERY. IN A REPORT, DATED MARCH 4, 2005, TO THE DAVIDSON COUNTY CEMETERY SURVEY PROJECT, ROY NEWSOM, FAMILY HISTORIAN, OUTLINED THE REASONS FOR THIS CHANGE. THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WERE PROBABLY BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY BECAUSE THE FAMILY HAD LIVED IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE FAMILY CEMETERY FOR MANY GENERATIONS, FROM CIRCA 1795 TO 1900. JOHN THOMPSON (CA. 1765-1791) RECEIVED 640 ACRES AS ASSIGNEES OF A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER ON NOVEMBER 14, 1789. HE WAS SLAIN BY INDIANS WHILE WORKING IN HIS CORN FIELD ON JUNE 2, 1791. PROPERTY WAS GIVEN TO HIS SISTER ALICE THOMPSON COLLINSWORTH. ALICE THOMPSON (1761-1828) MARRIED EDMUND COLLINSWORTH (CA. 1760 – 1816) ON DECEMBER 14, 1795. HE SERVED WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE DURING THE REVOLUTION AND WITH ANDREW JACKSON DURING THE WAR OF 1812. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, ALICE THOMPSON COLLINSWORTH CONTINUED TO LIVE ON THE PLACE. DURING HER LIFETIME, SHE GAVE THE PROPERTY TO HER DAUGHTER PARMELIA ANN. PARMELIA ANN COLLINSWORTH DAVIS (1807 – 1879) LIVED ON THIS PROPERTY WITH HER HUSBAND LOYD DAVIS (CA. 1791- CA. 1847) AND THEIR FAMILY. LAURA ANN DAVIS, DAUGHTER OF PARMELIA ANN, MARRIED THOMAS JEFFERSON HILL. SHE WAS GIVEN SOME OF THE PROPERTY. LAURA ANN WAS BURIED AT MT. OLIVET CEMETERY. JOHN THOMPSON COLLINSWORTH DAVIS (1840 – 1913), SON OF PARMELIA ANN COLLINSWORTH DAVIS, MARRIED MARY GARRETT BINNS IN 1869. TEN YEARS LATER, HE WAS GIVEN THE LAND WHICH WAS ADJACENT TO THE FAMILY CEMETERY. HIS DAUGHTER EFFIE B. DAVIS HAD BEEN BURIED IN THE FAMILY CEMETERY IN 1872. THE GRAVEYARD WAS “RESERVED” BY DEED IN 1879.

JERRY G. MARBLE

METRO AIRPORT AUTHORITY

JOHN FROESCHAUER, LONG HUNTER STATE PARK

MRS. LUCY BURNLEY

DEBIE COX

700003500

8513001700

9000000200

18200003500

1100002100

8107003400

5100015900

6900005600

10601003500

10601000100

2001

5110

4580

8085

3924

15TH AVENUE NORTH

ELM HILL PIKE

GALLATIN PIKE

ASHLAND CITY HIGHWAY

WHITES CREEK PIKE

WILLIAMSON CO.

PERCY WARNER PARK

DONELSON FAMILY CEMETERY FORMERLY LOCATED ON WILLIAM DONELSON FARM "INGLESIDE" (NORTH OF LEBANON ROAD AND WEST OF PRESENT OLD HICKORY BLVD. IN HERMITAGE) MOVED IN 1948 TO THE HERMITAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BY THE RACHEL STOCKLEY DONELSON CHAPTER OF THE D.A.R. THIS CEMETERY IS MAINTAINED BY THE HERMITAGE, WHICH OWNS THE OLD HERMITAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

WILSON CO. BORDER

ON METRO AIRPORT PROPERTY

ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONSERVATION REPORT BY DAN ALLEN, 2014. DETAILED ACCOUNT OF CEMETERY RESTORATION WITH PHOTOGRAPHS IN HAYS-RIEVES CEMETERY FILE AT METRO ARCHIVES, MAY 2014. TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS RE-CHECKED BY DAN ALLEN AND COLLEEN TAYLOR, JUNE 2014. AFTER RESTORATION, CHARLTON COULD BE READ AS THE SURNAME ON THE LAST FIVE TOMBSTONES IN THE ABOVE LIST.

LARRY FELDHAUS, PHILIPS DESCENDANT, HAS BEEN LEADING THE EFFORT TO RESTORE THE PHILIPS CEMETERY DURING 2013.  A CONTRACT HAS BEEN SIGNED WITH DAN ALLEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST AND STONE CONSERVATOR, TO UNDERTAKE THIS WORK.  TO READ MORE ABOUT THESE DEVELOPMENTS, VISIT THE FRIENDS OF PHILIP'S SYLVAN HALL CEMETERY WEBSITE. UPDATE REPORT: AUGUST 10, 2013. ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONSERVATION REPORT BY DAN ALLEN NOVEMBER 2013

ARCHAEOLOGY 2010

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DEMPSEY SAWYER CEMETERY TOOK PLACE DURING 2004.  EXAMINATION OF THE GRAVEYARD SITE REVEALED 13 UNKNOWN BURIALS AND 6 KNOWN BURIALS FOR PERSONS WITH INSCRIBED TOMBSTONES.  THE TOMBSTONES WERE CLEANED AND CONSERVED AND RESET IN THE CEMETERY.  CUMBERLAND RESEARCH GROUP, INC., WITH DAN SUMNER ALLEN IV, STAFF ARCHAEOLOGIST/ CONSERVATOR, CONDUCTED THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION AND RESTORATION OF THE TOMBSTONES IN THE CEMETERY. NO ADDITIONAL TOMBSTONES WITH INSCRIPTIONS WERE LOCATED DURING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK. OF SPECIAL INTEREST IS THAT EVEN AFTER CLEANING AND CONSERVATION OF THE TOMBSTONE, THE INSCRIPTION FOR THE AGE OF MRS. DINA VICK AT HER DEATH STILL APPEARED THE SAME: 115 YEARS.

DAN ALLEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST