About Mount Olivet Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery near Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. It lies about 3.0 mi west of Nashville. The grounds sit at about 502 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 173 notable people buried here, including Edward Emerson Barnard, Cornelia Fort and John Bell. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1294721. The nearest other listed cemetery is Calvary Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Mount Olivet Funeral Home & Cemetery in Nashville, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 121 cemeteries we list in Davidson County, and 74 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 121 listings in Davidson County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Nashville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery
Among them: 25 Civil War veterans, 16 US representatives, 15 business leaders, 9 artists, 8 musicians, 7 football players, 7 governors, 6 US senators.
- Edward Emerson Barnard1857-1923American astronomer and astronomical photographer
- Cornelia Fort1919-1943American aviator
- John Bell1796-1869American lawyer and politician
- Felix Grundy1777-1840American politician
- Anne Dallas Dudley1876-1955American women's suffrage activist
- Jacob M. Dickinson1851-1928Confederate Army soldier
- William B. Bate1826-1905Confederate Army general
- Fred Rose1897-1954American music producer, publisher and songwriter
- Howell Edmunds Jackson1832-1895American jurist and politician
- Aaron V. Brown1795-1859American politician
- Henry S. Foote1804-1880American politician
- Neill S. Brown1810-1886American politician and diplomat, Governor of Tennessee
Show all 173 notable burials
- Joseph W. Byrns1869-1936American politician
- Benton McMillin1845-1933American politician
- Jesse Wharton1782-1833American politician
- Benjamin F. Cheatham1820-1886Confederate Army general and owner of a gold mine
- Edward H. East1830-1904American politician
- John Catron1786-1865United States federal judge
- Andrew Price1854-1909American politician
- Hill McAlister1875-1959American politician
- Joseph H. Acklen1850-1938American politician
- Adelicia Acklen1817-1887American planter
- John Overton1766-1833American judge, banker and political leader
- Joseph W. Byrns Jr.1903-1973American politician
- Vern Gosdin1934-2009American country music singer
- William Beall1825-1883Confederate Army general
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell1837-1906American politician
- Arthur St. Clair Colyar1818-1907American lawyer and politician
- Benjamin A. Enloe1848-1922American politician
- Del Wood1920-1989County music pianist
- Ernest Stoneman1893-1968American singer-songwriter
- Horace Harrison1829-1885American politician
- Isaac Franklin1789-1846American slave trader
- James Edwards Rains1833-1862American lawyer and military officer
- John W. Gaines1860-1926American politician
- Albert E. Hill1870-1933American politician
- Billy Byrd1920-2001American musician
- David Lipscomb1831-1917Leader, American Restoration Movement
- George P. Buell1833-1883Union Army general
- Jim Denny1911-1963American music executive
- Johnny Gooch1897-1975American baseball player and coach
- Lytle Brown1872-1951United States general
- Robert Weakley1764-1845American politician
- Samuel McClary Fite1816-1875American politician
- Thomas Osmond Summers1812-1882American Methodist theologian
- William Hicks Jackson1835-1903Confederate Army general
- Adolphus Heiman1809-1862Prussian architect
- Albert Smiley Williams1849-1924American politician
- Alvan Cullem Gillem1830-1875Union Army general
- Ben Harris1889-1927American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Carl Giers1828-1877German-born American photographer and politician
- Cornelius Hankins1863-1946American painter and educator
- Eugene C. Lewis1845-1917American engineer
- Fannie Battle1842-1924American spy and social reformer
- Garland Morrow1899-1987American football and basketball player and coach
- George Maney1826-1901Confederate Army general
- James Hampton Kirkland1859-1939University administrator
- James Minor Quarles1823-1901Confederate Army officer and politician
- John Berrien Lindsley1822-1897American educator
- John McCormick Lea1818-1903American politician
- John Trotwood Moore1858-1929American journalist, writer and local historian
- Johnny Beazley1918-1990American baseball player
- Randal William McGavock1826-1863American politician
- Richard Houston Dudley1836-1914American politician
- Thomas Benton Smith1838-1923Confederate Army general
- Thomas Menees1823-1905American politician
- Thomas Owen Morris1845-1924American politician
- Washington Bogart Cooper1802-1888American painter
- William E. Beard1873-1950College football player, soldier, journalist, war correspondent, and naval historian
- William Giles Harding1808-1886American general and planter
- Abb Landis1856-1927American lawyer
- Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley1814-1885American lawyer, businessman and politician
- Aline Reese Blondner1841-1931American musician and educator
- Bruce Ryburn Payne1874-1937Founding president of Peabody College
- Edward Saunders Cheatham1818-1878American politician
- Fountain E. Pitts1808-1874American Methodist minister and Confederate chaplain
- Francis Furman1816-1899American businessman
- Gates P. Thruston1835-1912American lawyer and businessman
- George Dury1817-1894American painter of German origin;
- Guilford Dudley1907-2002American diplomat
- Hamilton Love1875-1922American sports journalist
- Henry Gibel1858-1906Swiss-born American architect
- James Stephen Brown1858-1946American politician, Tennessee
- John Meredith Bass1804-1878American banker and politician
- John Owsley Manier1887-1956American gridiron football player, sports coach and physician
- John Vaughn Blake1887-1964American football player, FBI agent
- John W. Morton1842-1914American Politician and White Supremacist
- Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen1816-1863American lawyer, planter, and veteran of the Texas Revolution
- Joseph Thorpe Elliston1779-1856American silversmith
- Lucius E. Burch1874-1959College football player, surgeon
- Morgan Welles Brown1800-1853United States federal judge
- Nathaniel Baxter Jr.1844-1913American business executive and politician
- Orrin Henry Ingram, Sr.1904-1963American businessman
- Oscar Penn Fitzgerald1829-1911American journalist
- Pat Estes1872-1947American football player
- Percy Warner1861-1927American businessman
- Pink Wade1899-1966American gridiron football player
- Richard Boone Cheatham1824-1877American politician
- Robert P. Kerr1850-1923Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923
- Thomas F. Frist, Sr.1910-1998American businessman
- Thomas Lee Woolwine1874-1925American politician
- Victor Francis O'Daniel1868-1960American Catholic priest and professor
- William Crane Gray1835-1919American bishop
- William Crawford Smith1837-1899American soldier and architect
- William King McAlister Jr.1850-1923American judge
- William Litterer1834-1917German-American politician
- Alexander Little Page Green1806-1874American Methodist preacher
- Dorothea Mulaik1900-1996American zoologist
- Ebenezer Calvert1850-1924American photographer
- Edmund William Cole1827-1899Confederate veteran and businessman
- Ernest N. Haston1877-1956American lawyer and politician
- Ernest Pillow1856-1904American politician
- George A. Dickel1818-1894German-born American businessman
- George N. Tillman1851-1923American lawyer and politician
- H. O. Fuller1865-1908American photographer, Nashville Banner
- Hank Fort1914-1973American singer and songwriter
- Hilary Ewing Howse1866-1938American politician
- Hord Boensch1893-1924American football player
- James Dodson Barbee1832-1904Methodist minister and publisher
- James Henry Stevenson1860-1919American academic
- John Thompson1852-1919American politician from Tennessee
- John Warner White1921-2010American Army Air Corps Major
- Marcia Trimble1965-1975American student
- Margaret Lindsley Warner1864-1936American philanthropist
- Oliver P. Rood1845-1885American soldier
- Peter Ross Calvert1855-1931American photographer
- Reau E. Folk1865-1948American journalist, civil servant and businessman
- Robert W. Jennings1838-1922American businessman and college founder
- Vernon K. Stevenson1812-1884American businessman
- Wilbur F. Foster1834-1922American engineer
- William G. Hirsig1868-1924
- William J. Sneed1835-1907American Confederate veteran, surgeon and educator
- William Marshall McCarthy1840-1899American banker and politician
- William Martin Armistead1873-1955American publicist
- A.K. Spence1831-1900Second principal of Fisk University
- Abram M. Tillman1863-1943American lawyer
- Anne Coleman Overton1823-1845
- Anne Orr1869-1946American designer, sewer, embroiderer, and author
- Cecil Ross Scaife1927-2009American actor and record producer
- Charles L. Cornelius1888-1968American lawyer
- Daniel C. Hillman1867-1889Iron manufacturer
- Edna S. Brainerd1875-1913American newspaper and magazine writer and children's book author
- Elizabeth Saunders Luttrell1843-1911
- Emily Sanders Gentry1844-1917
- Frederick Augustus Chase1833-1904Presbyterian minister and reformer
- George McPhail Smith1878-1943American chemist
- George Stodart Blackie1834-1881Scottish physician and botanist who practiced in Tennessee, United States
- Helen Lane Moore1907-1996
- Hortense Bigelow1906-1979
- James Burnette Eskridge1866-1952American academic
- James Pierre Drouillard1839-1892Drouillard, James Pierre; class of 1861
- James Smith Thayer1818-1881
- Joel Addison Hayes1815-1890
- John A. Witherspoon1864-1929American physician
- John J. Vertrees1850-1931Lawyer
- John Meredith Bass1845-1908
- Joseph Branch O'Bryan1838-1900American Confederate soldier
- Louise E. Jennings Morton1870-1947American artist
- Malvina Chenault Grundy1810-1863
- Mary Conner Bass1873-1945
- Mary Spence1865-1962Professor of classical languages and literature
- Medora Charlotte Cheatham1819-1880
- Neveah Gallegos2004-2007Murder by parents
- Oliver Bliss Hayes1783-1858(21 May 1783 - 1 Nov 1858)
- Patsy Stoneman1925-2015
- Richard Cheatham Plater1872-1955American banker
- Theodore McCarley1887-1927American lawyer
- Thomas Plater1829-1906
- Thomas Tennessee Hillman1844-1905Industrialist
- William King Bowling1808-1885American physician and medical editor
- William Morrow1839-1910Convict labor millionaire
- William T. Magruder1861-1935American educator and mechanical engineer
- William Thompson Briggs1828-1894American obstetrician
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Olivet Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Mount Olivet Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Calvary CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery0.3 mi
- Greenwood CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery0.7 mi
- Greenwood Cemetary WestNashville, TNCemetery0.8 mi
- Mount Ararat CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery0.9 mi
- John Buchanan CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery1.2 mi
- Nashville City CemeteryNashville, TNMunicipal cemetery2.0 mi
- Whitsett CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery2.1 mi
- Mill Creek Baptist Church GraveyardNashville, TNBaptist cemetery2.1 mi
- Woodlawn CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery2.8 mi
- Woodlawn Roesch - Patton Memorial ParkOak Hill, TNMemorial park2.9 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Olivet Cemetery
- Mount Olivet Funeral Home & Cemetery0.3 miFuneral home · Nashville · (615) 255-4193
- Hunt Memorials0.4 miMonument dealer · Nashville · (615) 254-1206
- Music City Mortuary2.4 miMortuary · Nashville · (615) 244-2774
- Ellis Funeral Home & Cremation Service Nashville2.5 miFuneral home · Nashville · (615) 255-5412
- Eastland Funeral Home & Cremation Service2.6 miFuneral home · Nashville · (615) 227-9558
- Crawford Funeral Home2.6 miFuneral home · Nashville · (615) 254-8200
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