Bate - Mount Olivet Cemetery- Nashville, Tennessee - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The sculpture is a bronze low relief bust of William Brimage.  He is facing to his proper right side.  Below the relief plaque is a bronze plaque with the following inscription:

William Brimage Bate
Lies Buried Here
1826 - 1905
Brave Patriotic And Incorruptible
He Was Called Up To Be
Governor, Major-General, United States Senator.

"Of All Human Things Nothing Is More Honorable Or More
Excellent Than To Deserve Well Of Ones Country"

The plaques are mounted on a large granite grave marker.

TITLE: Bate ARTIST(S): Unknown DATE: Unknown MEDIUM: Bronze on stone grave marker CONTROL NUMBER: IAS TN000373 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Mount Olivet Cemetery 1011 Lebanon Road Nashville, Tennessee DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted

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