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Tolbert Fanning
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.
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.
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. 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
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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
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Three Biographical Sketches On Tolbert Fanning
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. 
