Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville) - Notable Burials

Notable Burials

• Adelicia Acklen, wealthy Nashville businesswoman and socialite
• William B. Bate, Governor of Tennessee (1883 to 1887), American Civil War general
• John Bell, United States Senator and presidential candidate
• Aaron V. Brown, Governor of Tennessee (1845 to 1847), United States Postmaster General from 1857 to 1859
• George P. Buell, Union Army general
• Joseph Wellington Byrns, United States Congressman and Speaker of the House
• John Catron, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Benjamin F. ("Frank") Cheatham, Confederate general during the American Civil War
• Mary Hooper Donelson (1906-2000), noted Nashville Artist, Sculptor and Agriculturalist; owner of "Cleveland Hall"; 5th generation descendent of Nashville Founder Colonel John Donelson
• John Donelson Jr (VII) (1901-1975), Professional Power Generation Engineer; owner of "Cleveland Hall"; 5th generation descendent of Nashville Founder Colonel John Donelson
• Stockley Donelson (1805-1888), builder of "Cleveland Hall", grandson of Nashville Founder Colonel John Donelson, and Nephew of Rachel Donelson Jackson, Wife of President Andrew Jackson
• Anne Dallas Dudley (1876-1955), women's suffrage activist
• Edward H. East (1830–1904), Tennessee Secretary of State, briefly served as the state's "acting governor" in 1865
• Jesse Babcock Ferguson, onetime minister of the Nashville Church of Christ, later associated with Spiritualism and Universalism
• Thomas Frist, co-founder of Hospital Corporation of America and father of the former majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Bill Frist
• Meredith Poindexter Gentry, United States Congressman
• Alvan Cullem Gillem, Civil War Union general and post-bellum Indian fighter
• Felix Grundy, United States Senator and Attorney General
• Robert Kennon Hargrove (1829 – 1905), a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• E. Bronson Ingram, founder of Ingram Industries Inc., parent company of Ingram Barge Company; Ingram Book Company, the nation's largest book distributor; Ingram Micro; and other major companies
• Howell Edmunds Jackson, United States Senator and Supreme Court Justice
• William Hicks Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil War
• Thomas A. Kercheval, Tennessee State Senator and Mayor of Nashville
• David Lipscomb, founder of Nashville Bible School (now Lipscomb University)
• George Maney, Confederate Civil War general and U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay
• Jack C. Massey, entrepreneur who helped found or take public Hospital Corporation of America, Kentucky Fried Chicken and two other NYSE-listed companies
• Hill McAlister, Governor of Tennessee from 1933 to 1937
• J. O. McClurkan, founder of the Literary and Bible Training School for Christian Workers (now Trevecca Nazarene University)
• Eliza Jane McKissack (1828-1900), founding head of music in 1890 to the forerunner of the University of North Texas College of Music
• Benton McMillin, Governor of Tennessee (1899 to 1903)
• John Overton, friend of Andrew Jackson and one of the founders of Memphis, Tennessee
• James E. Rains, American Civil War general killed in the 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro
• Fred Rose, music publishing executive
• Thomas G. Ryman, steamboat captain, Nashville businessman, and builder of Ryman Auditorium
• Fletcher Srygley, Preacher, writer, and controversialist in the American Restoration Movement.
• Vernon K. Stevenson, first president of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
• Ernest Stoneman, country music performer
• Samuel Watkins, founder of Watkins Institute (now Watkins College of Art and Design)
• Del Wood (1920-1989), pianist
• Vern Gosdin 1934-2009 country music legend