The Carter Mausoleum The Moorish-inspired Carter mausoleum, resting place of Rachel Carter Craighead. Her diaries span the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, and provide a remarkable look at Nashville life. Topics covered include descriptions of school life in the 1850s and trips to places such as Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and New York City, and life in occupied Nashville during the Civil War. An affluent young woman with Confederate sympathies, Rachel was born to prominent Nashville banker Daniel F. Carter and Mary Buntin Carter in 1837. She married Nashville lawyer Thomas Craighead in 1859, and the couple continued to live with her parents at 6th and Union, along with younger brother John (also entombed here). Wartime brought the death of her brother in the Battle of Perryville and numerous arrests of her father in Nashville. Read portions of Rachels diary in her own handwriting at the link here: teva.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll15/id/554
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:06:26 +0000
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