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    Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood in northeast Memphis, Tennessee. Administered by the...
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    Elmwood Cemetery is the oldest active cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. It was established in 1852 as one of the first rural cemeteries in the South. A...
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    The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial...
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    movement. The Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in northeastern Memphis. Historic Elmwood Cemetery is one of the...
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    26, 1865 were buried in Memphis National Cemetery. Memphis, Tennessee Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nutbush, Memphis. https://maps.google.com/maps...
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    Gotti, Snootie Wild, Ceo D.We$t, Frayser Boy, Lil Wyte, and C-Mo. Memphis National Cemetery Speedway Terrace Firestone Park in Frayser New Chicago Vollintine...
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    Memorial Park Cemetery was founded in 1924 by E. Clovis Hinds on initial 54 acres (.22 km2). It is located at 5668 Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee....
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  • during the war, and his remains were eventually buried in the Memphis National Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, where they can be found in Section H, Grave 4131...
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    The Memphis Pyramid, formerly known as the Great American Pyramid and the Pyramid Arena, and colloquially known as the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid, is a pyramid-shaped...
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  • longest of the rail lines reached from downtown to Memphis National Cemetery near Raleigh. The Memphis Street Railway was created in March 1895 through...
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    Tennessee Air National Guard is based at the co-located Memphis Air National Guard Base, operating C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft. Memphis Municipal...
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    Pickering cemetery, located on the south shore of Memphis. A year later, when the U.S. government established the Memphis National Cemetery on the northeast...
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    Orange Mound, a neighborhood in southeastern Memphis, Tennessee, was the first US neighborhood to be built by and for African Americans. Built on the...
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    dependents. Recipients are granted eligibility for interment at Arlington National Cemetery, if not otherwise eligible. Fully qualified children of recipients...
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    Hollywood Cemetery, Jackson ‡ Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis Memphis National Cemetery, Memphis Oakland Cemetery, Trenton Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Finley...
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  • Santa Claus". Christopher Mark Byers is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery East in Memphis, Tennessee. Michael Moore was the son of Todd and Dana Moore. He...
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    Park, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974. The remains of the killed were moved to Memphis National Cemetery in 1867. One hundred nine...
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    Memphis (Arabic: مَنْف, romanized: Manf, pronounced [mænf]; Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲙϥⲓ; Greek: Μέμφις), or Men-nefer, was the ancient capital of Inebu-hedj...
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    located in Bethany Cemetery. Federal soldiers were buried in common graves, but were later reinterred in the Memphis National Cemetery. The American Battlefield...
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    West Memphis is the largest city in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 26,245 at the 2010 census, ranking it as the state's...
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    Frayser is a neighborhood on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is named after Memphis physician Dr. J Frayser, who owned a summer home...
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  • South Memphis, one of the oldest portions of Memphis, Tennessee, is a community stretching from Riverside Drive & E. H. Crump Blvd just south of Downtown...
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  • The following cemeteries were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Civil War Era National Cemeteries Multiple Property Submission...
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    The Peabody Memphis is a historic luxury hotel in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, opened in 1925. The hotel is known for the "Peabody Ducks" that live on...
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    Illinois Memorial (1928) Memphis National Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee Governor Edward Coles Memorial, (1929) Valley View Cemetery, Edwardsville, Illinois...
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    Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2...
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    battle. He died on March 3, 1986, at age 86 and was buried in the Memphis National Cemetery. The President of the United States of America takes pleasure...
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    The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, also known as the Memphis–Arkansas Bridge or inaccurately as the Memphis–Arkansas Memorial Bridge, is a cantilevered through...
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  • people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Memphis, Tennessee. This list is in alphabetical order by last name. Johnny Ace...
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  • Beresford Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis Graceland, Memphis Hendersonville Memory Gardens...
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