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Rose Hill Cemetery is located in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee. The large cemetery was established in 1853. During the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate fallen were interred here. In 1867, the Union soldiers were reinterred at Stones River National Cemetery in Murfreesboro, TN.
The Rosemount Cemetery section was created in 1873 by Columbia African Americans for those of their community who had served in the U.S. Colored Troops.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/17956/rose-hill-cemetery
"Rose Hill Cemetery opened to the public in 1853, and became the new alternative to the older Greenwood Cemetery of which further expansion seemed unlikely. Rose Hill Cemetery boasts a fusion of both the rural Upland South folk graveyard tradition and the new, European-inspired, Victorian garden cemetery. War veterans and other notable figures are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery such as Edward Carmack a well-known lawyer, newspaper editor and state representative; and Washington Whitthorne, also a lawyer who served in the state and U.S. senate as well as the state and U.S. House of Representatives."
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