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The Donelson Family Cemetery:
In November of 1948, the Rachel Stockley Donelson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution relocated here in the Hermitage churchyard. Originally, the cemetery was on land that once belonged to Captain John Donelson.
Among the people buried here are: Emily Tennessee Donelson, wife of Andrew Jackson Donelson and White House hostess during Andrew Jackson's Presidency; Captain John Donelson and wife Mary Purnell Donelson, Rachel Jackson's brother and sister-in-law; Severn Donelson and wife Elizabeth, biological parents of Andrew Jackson Jr., and Lewis Randolph, great grandson of Thomas Jefferson and the son of Lewis Meriweather Randolph and Elizabeth Martin Randolph. |