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Interment Records 1846 – 1979 The original Interment Records are the property of
Metropolitan Governmental Archives, Nashville. The
earliest records of burials, between 1822–1846, were lost
during the Civil War years. A project to transcribe all
the data in the Interment Records (1846-1979) of the
20,000 people buried in the cemetery has been completed.
CLICK HERE to view the Interment records hosted by the
Nashville Public Library web site.
1909 List “Alphabetical List of the Dead in the City Cemetery,
Nashville, Tennessee. As Shown on Existing Monuments and
Headstones.” Names, Sections and Lot numbers were shown on the List
Compiled by Felix Randolph Robertson Smith, Engineer. Published
1909.
1911 Supplement
Names with Section and Lot numbers.
Also compiled by F. R. R. Smith, Engineer. Published Nov. 20,
1911.
If you only have an approximation of the name or of
the date of interment, you can access the complete
listing of these books indexed by date and by name.
CLICK HERE for chronological date index, and
CLICK HERE for index by last name.
For Removal
Information
See the lists of those removed
to other cemeteries.
Relocated graves and tombstones to Nashville City
Cemetery. The history of these re-locations has been given
after the Inscription and the viewer is invited to visit
the web site for the 550 cemeteries surveyed in the
Davidson County Cemetery Survey Project (1999-to the
present).
www.davidsoncocemeterysurvey.com.
African-Americans Interred in
Nashville City Cemetery
Cumberland Lodge
No. 8
Those
researchers seeking a Federal Civil War soldier should
go to the U. S. Department of Veterans' Affairs -
Nationwide Gravesite Locator
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