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The First Presbyterian Church Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Established in the 1790s, the cemetery contains the graves of some of Knoxville's most prominent early residents, including territorial governor and Constitutional Convention delegate William Blount and Knoxville founder James White.〔Jack Neely, ''The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), pp. xvi-xix.〕 In 1996, the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places. While platting Knoxville with his son-in-law, Charles McClung, in 1791, White ordered at least one lot to be set aside for a church and cemetery. The cemetery spot may have been used as early as the 1780s for burials, and the cemetery contained several graves by 1799, but the earliest marker is Blount's, dated 1800.〔 While the First Presbyterian congregation was active in the 1790s, the first church was not built on the site until 1816. The cemetery was used for burials for nearly sixty years, its most active period being during the Epidemic of 1838, in which hundreds of Knoxvillians died from an unidentified illness.〔 ==History== In 1790, after his fort was chosen as the capital for the newly created Southwest Territory, James White asked his son-in-law, surveyor Charles McClung, to lay out a new town, named "Knoxville" after Secretary of War Henry Knox. McClung initially divided the town into 64 half-acre (0.2-ha) lots, and added additional lots in 1795, with the cemetery lot being included in the later additions.〔William MacArthur, Jr., ''Knoxville: Crossroads of the New South'' (Tulsa: Continental Heritage Press, 1982), pp. 17-22.〕〔 While the cemetery was not officially platted until 1795, historians speculate that burials likely occurred before that date. When Moravian missionary Frederick de Schweinitz passed through Knoxville in 1799, he reported that the cemetery already had numerous burials.〔 The First Presbyterian congregation was organized by the Reverend Samuel Carrick in the 1790s, and the first church was erected adjacent to the cemetery in 1816.〔 Shortly after the church's completion, disputes arose over several matters, including the renting of pews, and a doctrinal dispute between "Old Calvinists" and "Hopkinsians". A portion of the congregation split from First Presbyterian, and founded Second Presbyterian Church circa 1818. In 1838, hundreds Knoxvillians died when an unknown illness (possibly malaria) swept through the town. Approximately one-tenth of the marked graves in the cemetery are dated "1838"— more than any other single year— and one tombstone mentions "the fever."〔 The cemetery was open to new burials until 1857, but the last burial took place in 1879.〔(First Presbyterian Church Knoxville — Graveyard ). Retrieved: 11 January 2013.〕 During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers (who occupied the town 1861–1863) kept horses in the cemetery, and Union soldiers (who occupied the town 1863–1865) used the church as a hospital and barracks. Humorist George Washington Harris (1814–1869), an ardent Presbyterian, served as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church during his years in Knoxville. Two of his children, Harriet (1838–1846) and George (1841–1842), are buried in the cemetery.〔Jack Neely, ''Knoxville's Secret History'' (Scruffy Books, 1995), pp. 46-7.〕 In the 1870s, the cemetery had an indirect effect on the career of future newspaper publisher, Adolph Ochs. Ochs, then a young teenager working after hours as a "printer's devil" for the ''Knoxville Chronicle'', feared walking past the cemetery at night, as many locals believed it to be haunted. Rather than leave work after his shift (which ended close to midnight), Ochs stayed until daylight, spending the extra time learning the typesetting and printing trades.〔Doris Faber, ''Printer's Devil to Publisher: Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times'' (New York Messner, 1963), pp. 24-25.〕 The present First Presbyterian Church, constructed in 1910, is a Neoclassical building, with a Tiffany-style stained glass window. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First Presbyterian Church Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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