A photograph of Olivet Missionary Baptist Church located at 1811 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years the church has been known as both Olivet Missionary Baptist and Olivet Baptist. The congregation is historically African...
Subdivision of Mt. Olivet Cemetery lot 161, section one, owned by Dr. D.T. McGavock. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, located on Lebanon Road, opened in 1856 and is still in operation today. 8 x 10 in.
A postcard depicting several Nashville landmarks, including the State Penitentiary, the Confederate Monument in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the Parthenon in Centennial Park, two images of the United States Post Office and Custom House, Union Station,...
A carte-de-visite studio portrait of William A. Eichbaum. Eichbaum was born in 1787 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of German immigrants. He immigrated to the United States around 1820, and came to Nashville, Tennessee around 1821. He married Catherine...
An original will of Septimus W. Abbay. Illustrates the first page of the document. Abbay’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on April 13th, 1920. He is interred in the Mount Olivet Cemetery. Forms part of Record Group...
Pictured: Mount Olivet Cemetery burial service of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. (July 20, 1869-June 4, 1936) in Nashville, Tennessee. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is pictured in the center next to the vehicle. Bryns was...
Jesse Clifton Burt, Jr., in middle age, wearing a brown suit and green tie, with his arms crossed. His wedding band and watch are visible. Historian, author, and free-lance writer, Jesse Burt was born in 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee, to Jesse...
Joseph Thorp Elliston in his 60s, with grey hair and glasses. He is seated in a chair and is holding a walking stick or cane. Born in Virginia in 1779, Joseph Thorp Elliston was Nashville's first silversmith, jeweler, and watch and clock maker. ...
Mr. Gregg, middle-aged, with grey hair and full grey beard. His clothing is dark and he may be seated. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg came to Nashville, Tennessee, from Scotland and opened Gregg's Bakery, later Mitchell's, which operated for over a century in...
Mrs. Gregg, middle-aged, with dark hair and brown eyes. She is seated and is wearing a dark dress. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg came to Nashville, Tennessee, from Scotland and opened Gregg's Bakery, later Mitchell's, which operated for over a century in the...
A portrait photograph of Elizabeth Burgess Buford, a prominent educator and founder of Buford College, a school for young ladies that was first established in Clarksville, Tennessee in the 1880s and subsequently moved to Nashville in 1901. This...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Captain Pleas A. Smith, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee on the 10th of November, 1841, and was raised on the "Ewing Farm" six miles south of Nashville. At...
A photograph of Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard, between 1890 and 1905. She was born in Nashville on August 23, 1843, the daughter of Hugh Kirkman and Eleanora C. Van Leer. She was educated in local private schools and completed her education in...
A photograph of Captain James Pierre Drouillard II, the son of Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard and James Pierre Drouillard. He was born in Nashville in 1874. His great-grandfather was Anthony Wayne Van Leer, the founder of the iron works,...
8; 26; 17.0x40.0; 341; III; 07/20/1854; This vault flooded in 1920--moved to Mount Olivet were: (latter four names) reburied in front of the vault (their graves are marked by a slab); Harrison, Ellen Trabue; Harrison, Horace H.; Trabue, Andrew E.;...
25.0x40.0; 277; II; 03/01/1853; Can't find this lot-- somewhere on the west side of Gulley Avenue and the North side of Mulberry. ; [for burial] See file--noted to have been moved to Mt. Olivet--she is the mother-in-law of H.S. French.; Guigley,...
A published photo of Fred B. Cassetty, from the Nashville Times (1940). Cassetty (1882-1940), a leader in the coal business, is buried in Nashville’s Mount Olivet Cemetery. The 1941 City Directory cites the Fred B. Cassetty Coal Company “coal...
Guilford Dudley, Jr. pictured with Mayor West, and an unidentified man, circa 1957, receiving his “This is Your Life” album. Guilford Dudley, Jr. (1907-2002) was the United States ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential...
Guilford Dudley, Jr. (1907-2002) was the United States ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations. From 1952 until 1969, Dudley served as president of Life & Casualty Insurance Company. Dudley was the youngest...
Life and Casualty Insurance Executive Guilford Dudley, Jr. received a medal of recognition from Nashville Mayor Briley on May 26th, 1969. Dudley served as president of Life & Casualty Insurance Company from 1952 until 1969. He was the youngest...