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Template:Short description Spring Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee located at 5110 Gallatin Pike South in the neighborhood of Madison. It holds over 40,000 graves.
Prior to the establishment of the cemetery, the Davidson Academy (a precursor to the University of Nashville) was located in a stone house at this location.<ref name="thecontinuityofacollege">Template:Cite journal</ref>
In addition to two British Royal Air Force veterans of World War II,<ref name=cwgc>[1] CWGC Cemetery Report. Details obtained from casualty record.</ref> circus performer Ella Harper,<ref name="wordpress">Template:Cite web</ref> US Congressman Richard Merrill Atkinson, animator Suzan Pitt, and MLB player Red Lucas, the cemetery is the final resting place for numerous notable music performers including the following:
- Roy Acuff: singer, songwriter, music publisher<ref name=14,000>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp
- Tommy Brown: baseball player
- Floyd Cramer: piano legend<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- Pete Drake: steel guitar player
- Howard "Howdy" Forrester: fiddle player
- John Hartford: singer, fiddler<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- Bobby Hebb: soul singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, performer<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- Jan Howard: singer and songwriter
- Jimmy Martin: bluegrass singer<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- George Morgan: singer
- Speck Rhodes: country music comedian and entertainer
- Earl Scruggs: bluegrass musician<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- Hank Snow: singer
- Billy Marvin Walker: singer
- Kitty Wells: singer<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- Keith Whitley: singer<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- Beth Slater Whitson: songwriter<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp
- Johnnie Wright: singer and songwriter<ref name=14,000 />Template:Rp