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Knoxville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Established during the Civil War in 1863, the cemetery currently encompasses 9.8 acres (4.0 ha), and as of the end of 2007, had 9,006 interments.
Images of America: Knoxville. (Arcadia Publishing, 2003). Humes, Thomas W. The Half-Century of Knoxville: Being the Address and Proceedings at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town, February 10, 1842. To which is added an appendix: containing a number of historical documents.
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SOUTH KNOXVILLE. Veterans cemetery earns salute for excellence, visit by governor. Zach Thomas, Shopper News. Gov. Bill Lee visited the East Tennessee Veterans Cemetery off John Sevier Highway on ...
Content related to cemeteries located in the U. S. State of Tennessee which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the United States' official national heritage register) and other listed properties that include places of interment: graveyards, burial plots, crypts, mausoleums, or tombs.
While platting Knoxville with his son-in-law, Charles McClung, in 1791, White ordered at least one lot to be set aside for a church and cemetery. The cemetery spot may have been used as early as the 1780s for burials, and the cemetery contained several graves by 1799, but the earliest marker is Blount's, dated 1800. [ 1 ]
In a moving display of respect and honor, the Knoxville community came together to bid a final farewell to civil rights luminary and historian Robert J. Booker, who died Feb. 22 at age 88.
Old Gray Cemetery is the second-oldest cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.Established in 1850, the 13.47-acre (5.45 ha) cemetery contains the graves of some of Knoxville's most influential citizens, ranging from politicians and soldiers, to artists and activists.