Need for a new burying ground in Nashville

Citizens to meet about a new burying ground

Request to remove anyone buried outside the limits of the graveyard

Family Chronicle
Octavia Zollicoffer Bond

Richard Cross sold City 4 acres for burying ground

Cemetery Sexton needed. Apply to Mayor

Past four years of interments

List of burials for part of June, 1835

Sexton’s report of burials in June 1841

Description of City Cemetery

Sexton’s report of burials in August 1841

No Fence. Sexton Kingsley re subscripitons

Sexton Kingsley making improvements

Monument to John Sevier

Comparison of burials-first 6 mos. 1852 to 1853

Nashville Dispatch Reprinted in Nashville Retrospect, April 2013

General Mitchell To Protect Cemetery From Being Disturbed & Cemetery Statistics for March and April

Murfreesboro office opened

Mourning Clothes Available in Nashville

Caskets, Hearses, Carriages – J. H. Currey, Undertaker

Burial Cases, Hearses, Metallic Cases – W. R. Cornelius, Undertaker

Fence stolen at City Cemetery

Sexton Norvell making improvements

Nashville paper

Cave Mystery near the cemetery

Burial in Soldiers’ cemetery near City Cemetery

A Stroll Through the City Cemetery

Sexton’s report of burials in May 1867

Desolate Graves, possibly Confederate Soldiers

The Resting Place of the Dead Given Over to the Raids of Swines

Necropolis – Reburials from City Cemetery near Railroad to Mt. Olivet

Council considering buying land for new cemetery

Neglected graves of Confederate dead

The Cities of the Dead – Report of the Cemetery Committee

Nashville paper

New Gate and repair of fencing taking place

Removal to Mt. Olivet instructions

A Bull in a Cemetery – Attacks Two Ladies

Nashville paper

Confederate graves decorated City & Mt. Olivet

Proposed Conversion of Cemetery into Park

Closing the City Cemetery

The Old Cemetery – The Waterworks

The City Cemetery – Cemetery Not Closed Despite Appearances

Report of the Sexton to the City Council

Site bought for Confederate dead Reburials

Memorial Concert. Aid Confederate Reburials

Conf. Reburials to Mt. Olivet underway

Confederate graves decorated at City & Mt. Olivet

Dedication of Confederate burials at Mt. Olivet

Memorial Day at City & Mt. Olivet

Confederate graves. Reburials at Mt. Olivet

The Ivy Stone

Confederate Reburials continuing to Mt. Olivet

Confederate graves decorated at City & Mt.Olivet

Nashville paper

Sexton’s report on burials in June 1870

Cemetery Depredations by Visitors

Graveyard Horror – Dead Body Found Unburied

Memorial Day at City, Mt. Olivet & Calvary

Confederate graves decorated at City & Mt. Olivet

Improvements made to Cemetery by Sexton Dan Martin since his appointment

New fence and sewer needed

Common Council bill for $1200 to be appropriated to improvements at Cemetery

Improved Condition of Cemetery

Large Number of Cemetery Visitors

Brave Lad Sees Large Reptile

Workmen Will Begin to Put Up New Plank Fence

Resolution moving toward repair of tombstones and conversion to memorial park

Confederate & Federal graves decorated

FORGETTING THE PAST – Scattering Flowers Here and There in the City and Mt. Calvary Cemeteries.

South Nashville’s Mortality – Poisonous Gases from Vault?

Demolition of the City Vault

History of early Nashville cemeteries

Condition of Cemetery Suggest Label of “Repose Cemetery”

Many improvements made to the cemetery by William Perry

Removal of the City Cemetery

Letter to Paper Regarding the Closing of the Cemetery

Another Letter Regarding the Closing of the Cemetery Lawsuit

For Those Interested in the City Cemetery Invitation to Meeting

Test Case on City Cemetery to be Tried in Circuit Court

Owners of Lots in the City Cemetery to Meet Regarding Their Rights

A Meeting of Citizens Regarding City Cemetery Held at the Merchants’ Exchange

Lawsuit to be Taken up Next Week

Judge Reid Decides Test Case in Favor of the Defendant

Burial records 1822-1859 at City Cemetery

Many distinguished Tennesseans at City Cemetery

An Unusual Ghost Visits City Cemetery

Confederate Monuments in Tennessee Confederate Circle at Mt. Olivet

Graves of Nashville’s Honored Dead Grow Up in Weeds

Wonders beneath City of Nashville – Graves Disappear in What is Thought to be Mighty Caverns

Hole in Cemetery – Cave-in Just Over Cavern Said to Exist Under City

Robert Smiley’s Grave Located

Many Pioneers at City Cemetery

Nashville paper

City Cemetery Restoration progressing

Nashville paper

City Cemetery Restoration progressing

James Robertson Lot restored, beautified

Tracing history, vaults, recent restoration

Many Pioneers at City Cemetery

Condition of City Cemetery

Retrospective reprint of article about condition of cemetery in 1959