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Tolbert Fanning
1810-1874



TOLBERT
FANNING
Born
May 10, 1810
Died May 3, 1874
Two
Objects Were Near His Heart - First, To Restore The Service
Of
God To The Order God Gave In The New Testament. Second, To
Place
A Good, Industrial And Literary
Education Within Reach
Of
Every Youth. He Labored To These Ends During His Life, And
Desired
His Property Devoted To Them After His
Death.
See
Three Biographical Sketches On Tolbert Fanning

Charlotte
Fall Fanning
(1809-1896)

The
sister of Philip S. Fall, Charlotte was the second wife of Tolbert Fanning. She
was a very intelligent Christian woman, who believed in education. She and her
husband, Tolbert were one of the greatest known husband/wife teams of the
Restoration Movement. One prized book in my collection is The Life Of Charlotte
Fall Fanning, written by Emma Page, who was the wife of T.B.
Larimore. It was a brief biography on her life, but also recorded articles
that Charlotte had written. Both Charlotte
and Tolbert are buried in the same grave.
See
This Sketch On The Life Of Charlotte Fall Fanning

CHARLOTTE
FALL FANNING
Borne
April 10.1809 Died August 15, 1896
"She
Spent Her Life In Training Girls For Usefulness And In Doing
Good
She Founded A School In Which Girls Would Be Taught The
Bible
Daily, And Trained In The Domestic And Useful Callings Of Life.
'I
Was Sick And You Visited Me.' By Her Neighbors

Three
Burial Locations
Initially,
the final resting place of Tolbert Fanning was on the back of the old Elm Crag
property where the home and Franklin College existed, at the southwest corner of
Briley Parkway and Vultee Pike. See Historical
Marker. Twenty-two years later Charlotte died, and his body was exhumed
and buried with his wife at the front of the property.
In 1940, the Airport Authority in Nashville purchased the property. Today one of
the airport runways of the International Airport lays on top of the old farm and
campus.
Tolbert
and Charlotte Fall Fanning are now buried in
the Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville Tennessee. The
cemetery is located at 1101 Lebanon Pike, Southeast of downtown Nashville. Click
over to Mt. Olivet for map and location of the grave in the cemetery. This is
the third location for the remains of Tolbert Fanning and the second for
Charlotte. They are
buried in Section 25 - Lot #56. Be sure to see map for directions in the
cemetery. MAP
GPS
Coordinates
N36º 08' 43.4" x WO 86º 43' 49.9"
Accuracy To Within 16'
Facing North

Tolbert
Fanning Historical
Marker
In the
summer of 2003 a historical marker was set up on the property where Franklin
College once stood, where the Fannings were originally buried. It is now land
used for the airport in Nashville. However the beautiful marker located on the
southeast corner of Vultee Blvd. & Briley Pkwy. is a tribute to the work of
Tolbert and Charlotte Fanning. I visited this site with David Decker August 7,
2003 while returning to Atlanta from Henderson where we paid respect to the
family of the late Dowell Flatt.
GPS
Coordinates Of Historical Marker
N36º 07' 46.8" x WO 86º 41' 77.1"
Accuracy To Within 17'
Facing North


This Was Erected By The Historical Commission Of
Metropolitan Nashville And Davidson County
No. 113; Erected 2003

Located At The SE Cnr. of Vultee Blvd. &
Briley Pkwy, Nashville, Tennessee
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