Spring Hill Cemetery Written by Debie Oeser Cox Published on the Nashville History Blog November 6, 2014 http://nashvillehistory.blogspot.com/ African American Burials Spring Hill Cemetery, Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee. At Spring Hill Cemetery, on Gallatin Pike in Madison, there is a large section, with only a few markers, in the southwest corner of the cemetery that was reserved for the burial of persons of African descent. On a plat of the cemetery, the section is marked, "H" single graves. Section H A large marker with the name Joe Browne, across the front, is the most prominent in this section.
Spring Hill Cemetery located in Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee has a little known section that was reserved for the burial of African-Americans. The section has been referred to as the old slave section and the negro lot in cemetery records. Very few burials in this section were recorded in cemetery records. Death Certificates recorded by the Davidson County Health Department, tombstone inscriptions, and obituaries from the Nashville Globe, provide names of many of the African-Americans buried in Spring Hill Cemetery.
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Spring Hill Cemetery
Written by Debie Oeser Cox
Published on the Nashville History Blog
November 6, 2014
http://nashvillehistory.blogspot.com/
African American Burials
Spring Hill Cemetery, Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee.
At Spring Hill Cemetery, on Gallatin Pike in Madison, there is a large section, with only a few
markers, in the southwest corner of the cemetery that was reserved for the burial of persons of
African descent. On a plat of the cemetery, the section is marked, "H" single graves.
Section H
A large marker with the name Joe Browne, across the front, is the most prominent in this section.