Bate - Mount Olivet Cemetery- Nashville, Tennessee
Posted by: BruceS
N 36° 08.992 W 086° 44.060
16S E 523898 N 4000604
Relief of William Brimage Bate former Governor and U.S. Senator of Tennessee at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.
Waymark Code: WMGEJR
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 02/22/2013
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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.