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After 2009 Restoration

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            Tennessee Robertson, a granddaughter of Founder of Nashville James Robertson, was born on August 15, 1808. Her parents were Leodocia Erwin and William Blount Robertson. Her father was the eighth of eleven children born to James and Charlotte Robertson. Leodocia was a sister of Jane Erwin Dickinson whose husband Charles was killed in a duel with Andrew Jackson in 1806. In 1807, Leodocia’s father purchased a 200 acre farm from his brother Dr. Felix Robertson. The farm was located a few miles from the newly established Town of Nashville. The family lived in a double log house on this farm for twenty years until they moved to Louisiana. After the death of her second husband, she married Charles Davis in 1849. With children from her former marriages, Tennessee and Charles lived in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. In 1857, on a visit to Nashville, she died at the residence of her cousin Mrs. Jane D. Allen. Only a day before her death, Tennessee had purchased a lot in City Cemetery near the lot of her grandparents James and Charlotte Robertson. In a period when mourning practices were strictly observed, her death notice in the local newspaper reported her request that “none of her relatives should wear mourning.“

Prepared by Fletch Coke February 2014