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IN MEMORY OF/ MOSES STEVENS/ BORN AT/ ANDOVER MASS./ OCTOBER 1ST.
1790/ DIED AT/ NASHVILLE, TENN./ MARCH 1ST. 1841/ ERECTED/ BY
THE/ GRAND LODGE OF TENN./ AND THE/ GRAND R.A. CHAPTER OF
TENN./ IN COMMEMORATION OF/ MOSES STEVENS/ WHO FOR MANY YEARS
FILLED/ THE OFFICE OF/ GRAND SECRETARY/ WITH SIGNAL FIDELITY/
AND INTEGRITY AND/ WHOSE PRIVATE VIRTUE/ ENDEARED HIM TO THE/
FRATERNITY.
A.L. 5841 A.D. 1841
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
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THIS PLAQUE IS READABLE FROM THE SNAPSHOT. IT IS IN HONOR
OF THE EDUCATORS BURIED IN THE OLD CITY CEMETERY. MR. HUME
AND MR. FOGG ARE BURIED IN THIS PLOT. HUME-FOGG HIGH SCHOOL,
IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE IS NAMED AFTER THEM.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
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ERECTED
BY THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ AT NASHVILLE TO THE MEMORY/ OF
THEIR LATE BELOVED AND/ LAMENTED PASTOR, THE REV./ OBADIAH
JENNINGS:/ D. D. WHO DEPARTED THIS/ LIFE JANUARY 12TH, 1832:/
AGED 53 YEARS. / DR. JENNINGS WAS BORN NEAR/ BASKINGRIDGE, NEW
JERSEY/ DEC. 13TH 1778/ HIS ORIGINAL POWERS WERE/ NATURALLY
STRONG AND HIS/ DISCERNMENT UNUSUALLY CLEAR./ HE WAS A RIPE
SCHOLAR A/ PROFOUND THEOLOGIAN, A SINCERE/ CHRISTIAN, A
LABORIOUS AND FAITH/ FULL MINISTER./ IN HIS SOCIAL FEELINGS,
AND HAB/ ITS HE WAS MOST HAPPILY CONSTI/ TUTED, AND IN HIS
DOMESTIC RELA/ TIONS, NO HUSBAND OR FATHER COULD BE MORE/
DEVOTED./ HE HELD FAST TO THE FAITH, ONCE/ DELIVERED TO
THE SAINTS./
AMONG ALL HIS ATTRACTIVE QUAL/ ITIES HIS DEEP HUMILITY, AND/
HIS ACCUSTOMED SPIRIT OF DE/ VOTEDNESS IN PRAYER, WERE THE
/MOST PREEMINENT./ HE WAS, BOTH IN ARGUMENT AND/ IN
SCRIPTURAL EXPOSITION, REMARK/ ABLY LUCID AND INSTRUCTIVE./
HIS MEMORY IS EMBALMED/ IN THE AFFECTIONS, BUT LIKEWISE/
IN THE AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE FLOCK TO WHOM HE AD/
MINISTERED IN GREAT TENDERNESS/ AND FIDELITY AND WHO BY THIS/
MONUMENT WOULD EVER PERPETU/ATE THEIR HIGH ESTEEM OF HIS/
WORTH AND OF THEIR LOSS.
HE RESTS FROM HIS LABORS/ AND HIS WORKS DO FOLLOW HIM.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
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JULIA MAY WHEAT WIFE WORTHIEST OF L. STAN BRINPE OF VIRGINIA
WAS BORN TO THIS LIFE 5 FEB. 1820 AND TO A BETTER LIFE
15 JUNE 1848
THAT WHICH SHOWS MOST
IS NOT QUICKEND EXCEPT IT DIE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
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THIS PLAQUE IS READABLE AS SHOWN IN THE SNAPSHOT. THE LAST
TWO LINES ARE:
DUCIT AMOR PATRIAE (LOVE OF COUNTRY LEADS ME: PHILLIPS'
COAT OF ARMS.)
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
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RUTH FLETCHER LOVING, BORN SEPT. 23, 1820, DIED JAN. 21, 1903.
HERE LIES TRUTH BEAUTIFIED, LOVE PERSONIFIED, DEATH GLORI-
FIED.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
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SUBJECT OF PHOTOGRAPH: IN MEMORY OF WM. EDWD. WEST.,
ARTIST, BORN IN LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, 1788, DIED 1857, AGED
69 YEARS.
Submitter comment: THIS PLAQUE IS READABLE AS SHOWN. THE ACTUAL GRAVE OF
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
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ELIZABETH / PORTERFIELD / ELLIOTT / NOV. 20, 1860 /
MAY 13, 1932
LOVER OF HISTORY, ESPECIALLY OF NASHVILLE AND TENNESSEE.
AUTHOR OF/ "EARLY DAYS IN NASHVILLE"/ BEAUTIFUL IN
CHRISTIAN CHARACTER & FAITH. SHE LIVED AN UNSELFISH AND
USEFUL LIFE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
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JOHN SOMMERVILLE BORN AT YORK PENN. JUNE 25TH 1788
DIED AT NASHVILLE APRIL 26TH 1846
HE REMOVED TO NASHVILLE IN 1799
IN THE VARIOUS BANKS OF WHICH CITY
FROM 1812 TO HIS DEATH HE
SUCCESSIVELY FILLED THE OFFICES OF
CLERK, TELLER, CASHIER, AND PRESIDENT.
THE DUTIES OF THESE OFFICES HE
DISCHARGED WITH A FIDELITY THAT
NEVER FALTERED AND AN INTEGRITY
WHICH WAS ABOVE THE REACH OF TEMPTATION.
HE HAS LEFT A NAME
THE MEMORY OF WHICH WILL LONG
BE CHERISHED BY HIS FAMILY
AND FRIENDS
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
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IN MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CAMPBELL THE SON OF
DR. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL AND ELIZABETH MC KAY HIS WIFE.
WHO IMMAGRATED TO NORTH CAROLINA IN THE YEAR 1772
HE WAS BORN IN THE PARISH OF TONGUE SUTHERLANDSHIRE
SCOTLAND ON THE 9TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1769. WAS GRADUATED
AT PRINCETON COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY IN 1794 AND BECAME A MEMBER
OF THE KNOXVILLE BR IN 1798. FROM THE YEAR 1803 DURING SIX
YEARS HE WAS REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS OF THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF TENN. AND WAS THEN CHOSEN A JUDGE OF THE SUPREME
COURT OF ERRORS AND APPEALS ELECTED IN 1811 A SENATOR IN
CONGRESS FROM TENN. HE SERVED UNTIL 1814 WHEN HE WAS
APPOINTED SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY BY MR. MADISON. HAVING
RESIGNED THAT OFFICE THE NEXT YEAR HE WAS REELECTED TO THE
SENATE IN 1816 AND APPOINTED MINISTER TO RUSSIA IN 1818.
IN WHICH CAPACITY HE SERVED TWO YEARS. BY APPOINTMENT OF
GENERAL JACKSON IN 1832 HE SERVED AS ONE OF THREE COMMISSION-
ERS TO SETTLE CLAIMS UNDER THE TREATY OF INDEMNITY THEN LATELY
MADE WITH FRANCE.
HE DIED IN NASHVILLE ON THE 17TH FEBRUARY 1848
Submitter comment: THE OTHER GRAVES IN THIS PLOT ARE THOSE OF HIS FAMILY.--S.R.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Cemetery ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Shrine Memorial BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
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PHOTOGRAPH OF GRAVESTONE
NANCY POMEROY LAWRENCE
BORN AUG. 11TH, A.D., 1791
AT SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK
DIED MARCH 19 A.D., 1846
" (BLANK) ALL MUST TO THEIR COLD GRAVES:
ONLY THE ACTIONS OF THE JUST
SMELL SWEET, AND BLOSSOM IN THE DUST.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |