"Bishop's Grave"

UNIVERSITY GENERAL SCULPTURE COLLECTION

The stone monument marks the grave site of 3 Methodist bishops: Bishop Holland N. McTyeire, one of the founders of Vanderbilt University and the first president of its Board of Trust, who died in 1889; Bishop William McKendree, the first American-born Methodist bishop and a soldier with George Washington's army; and Bishop Joshua SOule, who helped found the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The latters 2 bishop's remains were moved here from elsewhere in Nashville in 1876 by Bishop McTyeire. Landon C. Garland, first Chancellor of the University, who died in 1895 and his wife, Amelia Townsend McTyeire, are also buried here.