About Spring Hill Cemetery
Spring Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. It lies about 6.2 mi southwest of Nashville. The grounds sit at about 469 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 17 notable people buried here, including Roy Acuff, Billy Walker and Pete Drake. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1271105. The nearest other listed cemetery is Nashville National Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Spring Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery in Nashville, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 121 cemeteries we list in Davidson County, and 60 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 Spring Hill Cemetery
Among them: 6 musicians, 3 baseball players, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 journalist, 1 physician, 1 Spanish-American War veteran, 1 US representative, 1 World War I veteran.
- Roy Acuff1903-1992American country music singer and fiddler
- Billy Walker1929-2006American country music singer and guitarist
- Pete Drake1932-1988American musician
- Richard Merrill Atkinson1894-1947American politician and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee
- Ruby Wright1939-2009American country singer
- Lorene Mann1937-2013American singer
- Henry Russell Sanders1905-1958American college football coach, College Football Hall of Fame member
- Mickey Kreitner1922-2003American baseball player
- Ray Hamrick1921-2009American baseball player
- Beth Slater Whitson1879-1930American songwriter
- Harvey Shannon1831-1906American physician
- Louise Scruggs1927-2006American music manager
Show all 17 notable burials
- Robert J. Lyles1817-1860American slave trader
- Speck Rhodes1915-2000American entertainer
- Thomas B. Craighead1753-1824
- Thomas Setzer Hutchison1875-1936Civil reformer
- Mary Ann Thomas1841-1926American journalist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Spring Hill 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 Spring Hill 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
- Nashville National Cemetery1420 Gallitan Road, South Madison, TNNational cemetery0.5 mi
- Benevolent CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery1.0 mi
- Dry Creek CemeteryGoodlettsville, TNCemetery3.3 mi
- Greenwood Cemetery NorthGoodlettsville, TNCemetery3.7 mi
- New Bethel CemeteryGoodlettsville, TNCemetery4.1 mi
- Beech Grove CemeteryGoodlettsville, TNCemetery4.9 mi
- Donelson Church of Christ CemeteryHermitage, TNChurch cemetery5.5 mi
- Calvary CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery6.0 mi
- Davidson County CemeteryNashville, TNMunicipal cemetery6.1 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryNashville, TNCemetery6.2 mi
Funeral homes near Spring Hill Cemetery
- Spring Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery0.3 miFuneral home · Nashville · (615) 866-1419
- Springhill Funeral Home & Cemetery, Janice Linder0.3 miFuneral home · Nashville · (615) 865-1101
- Hunt Memorials0.5 miMonument dealer · Nashville · (615) 262-1313
- Edward Hatch Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Nashville · (629) 702-2144
- Madison Funeral Home1.8 miFuneral home · Madison · (615) 868-9020
- Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home2.9 miFuneral home · Nashville · (615) 262-3312
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