Spring Hill Cemetery - Battle of Nashville & Beyond

Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville:

The Nashville National Cemetery actually has it’s origins from the Spring Hill Cemetery in Madison Tennessee.

The history of Spring Hill dates back to the 1780s when the first settlers moved in from the Cumberland settlement into an area six miles east of Nashville called Haysboro. The land offered fertile soil for their crops and a plentiful steady water source from several springs. Needing a church and school, James Robertson persuaded the Princeton educated Reverend Thomas B. Craighead of Mecklenburg, North Carolina, to move to Haysboro as a preacher and teacher. With a promise of 640 acres of land he arrived in 1785. The settlers had built a log house on the property for him and his family.

Spring Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located at 5110 Gallatin Pike South in the Nashville, Tennessee neighborhood of Madison, Tennessee.

Prior to the establishment of the cemetery, the Davidson Academy (a precursor to the University of Nashville) was located in a stone house at this location.^[1]

In addition to two British Royal Air Force veterans of World War II^[2] and circus performer Ella Harper,^[3] the cemetery is the final resting place for numerous notable music performers including the following: