Page 10- The News, February 16, 2017 Neighborhood Nostalgia E.D. Thompson


History Is Alive at Fourth Avenue and Oak Street


I was born in Nashville, and


have always known about the existence of Nashville's Old City Cemetery. It was not until the 1950's that I became even more interested in history of the Old Cemetery. That is when my wife's father, Mr. T. C.


Young, helped to restore and began to research and formu- late brochures about the ceme- tery. The cemetery was Nash- ville's first public cemetery which opened in 1822 and has become a wonderful tour for


adults, tourists, and a historical field trip for Nashville area school children. Among those buried there is General James Robertson (1742- 1814) who is considered to be the founder of Nashville. Robertson died near Memphis and was buried there, but was reinterred in our Old City Cemetery in 1825. General Robertson's wife,


Charlotte Robertson, also is buried in the Old City Cemetery as well as their son, Dr. Felix Robertson, who was the first white child born in Nashville. Felix was mayor of Nashville twice, and was a professor of medicine at the old University of Nashville. Also buried in this cemetery is minister and educator Alfred Hume, who along with a lawyer by the name of Francis B. Fogg, are considered to be the fathers of Nashville's public school sys- tem.


In the cemetery you can see


the graves of Mabel Lewis Imes and Ella Seppard who were members of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. The Fisk Jubilee Singers


Entrance to the City Cemetery


were formed to serve as public relations and money raising entity to save and support Fisk University during its financial difficulties. The Jubilee Singers went on tour in 1871 to raise money that took them to the North, East, the White


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