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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