A developer has been given permission to go ahead and re-bury bodies from a 170year old cemetery that developers had planned to relocate into a 50-foot buffer zone mandated by a 2002 rezoning. The property is located in Ooltewah, Tennessee
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Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis Tennessee
Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis's oldest graveyard opened in 1852 and houses the remains of many prominent, and notorious, citizens. It's a microcosm of Memphis history—Civil War, Masons, yellow fever, immigration, crime: it's all represented.
Of particular note is the number of victims of yellow fever, which struck the city most severely in 1878. Half the populace fled Memphis and at the height of the disease that summer, 200 people died per day.
Over 1,000 Civil War soldiers are buried in the cemetery, as are former politicians, blues singers and criminals.
Read more about Elmwood Cemetery
Of particular note is the number of victims of yellow fever, which struck the city most severely in 1878. Half the populace fled Memphis and at the height of the disease that summer, 200 people died per day.
Over 1,000 Civil War soldiers are buried in the cemetery, as are former politicians, blues singers and criminals.
Read more about Elmwood Cemetery
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