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Known as the Boy Hero of the Confederacy, twenty-one-year-old Sam Davis was sentenced by Union troops to death by hanging when he refused to divulge information about one of his fellow captives. Davis was born and raised in Smyrna, Tennessee, where his boyhood home still stands today. When the Civil War began, he enlisted immediately and was made a private. When captured by Union soldiers, he was on a mission for the Confederate army and had in his saddle bags a package containing Union Army battle plans. He denied any personal knowledge of the contents. When asked from whom he obtained the information, Davis refused to name the source and was consequently sentenced to death as a spy. Just before he was hung, a Union scout tried to give him one last chance to save his life, but Davis responded, "I'd rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend." The monument to Davis on Capitol Hill was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy with help from the state legislature and is one of four in Tennessee commemorating his heroism.
Known as the "first citizen" of Nashville, Jacques Timothy Demonbreun was a French Canadian hunter and fur trader who began coming to the French Lick in the 1760s and built a cabin here. Demonbreun's grandfather was the first Canadian to be raised to the rank of nobility, but Demonbreun preferred life as a hunter. He settled in the Illinois Territory where he served as lieutenant governor from 1783-1786. Described as "tall, athletic, and dark-skinned, with a large head and an eagle eye," Demonbreun was a striking figure who wore a foxskin cap with a tail down the back.. He moved to Nashville in 1788 and lived here until his death in 1826. A historical marker at the northwest corner of Third Avenue, North, and Broadway marks the site of his home.
)One of the two founders of Nashville, John Donelson joined with James Robertson to lead the first settlers to begin a new settlement on the Cumberland River at the French Lick. A land speculator and surveyor, Donelson served in the Virginia House of Burgesses before moving to the Watauga settlements on the Holston and Watauga rivers in East Tennessee. There he met James Robertson, and while Robertson led a group or mostly men and boys overland with pack horses and livestock, Donelson organized and led a flotilla of approximately thirty boats from the Holston River to the Tennessee, up the Ohio, and then up the Cumberland to the present site of Nashville, approximately 1000 miles. Most of Donelson's passengers were the wives and children of the men who went with Robertson. Because of repeated attacks by Indians, Donelson later moved his family north to Kentucky; but he continued to own and farm land in the Cumberland settlements. Donelson was mysteriously killed on the trail between Kentucky and Nashville in 1786. The tenth of Donelson's eleven children was Rachel Donelson Jackson, the wife of Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States.
Edward Dougherty was a Nashville architect who worked as an associate with McKim Mead and White of New York on the design for the War Memorial Building (1925). Born in Atlanta, Dougherty attended the University of Georgia, Cornell University in New York, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He returned to the United States and practiced briefly in Atlanta before coming to Nashville in 1916. In 1917, Dougherty formed a partnership with Thomas W. Gardner which lasted until 1930. In addition to the War Memorial Building, Dougherty worked on the design for the Belle Meade Country Club (1914-1916) and designed the stone entrance to Edwin Warner Park (1930). When he died, he was staff architect for the Baptist Sunday School Board.
A New England sea captain who moved to Nashville in his thirties, Captain William Driver is given credit for naming the American flag "Old Glory." Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Driver was apprenticed to a blacksmith at age thirteen. He ran away to become a cabin boy at age fourteen and by age twenty-one had earned his masters papers and the right to command a ship. For his twenty-first birthday Driver's mother gave him a flag made by her and friends which, as the story goes, he ran up the rig of his very first vessel and exclaimed, "We'll call her 'Old Glory,' boys!" During his career as a sea captain, Driver sailed to Tahiti and discovered the descendants of the Bounty mutineers, whom he returned to Pitcairn Island. When his wife died in 1837, Driver decided to move with his three children to Nashville to be near his brother's family. During the Civil War, the Union Army occupied Nashville, and Driver, who had remained a Unionist, asked the Union soldiers to raise "Old Glory" over the State Capitol where it flew for approximately a month. The name has been popular ever since. Driver's family later gave the flag to President Harding. Today it can be seen in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Captain Driver is buried in the Old Nashville City Cemetery. His grave and that of Francis Scott Key are the only two places in the United States where the American flag is permitted to fly twenty-four hours a day.
Suffragist and civic leader Anne Dallas Dudley was a leader in the movement to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution that gave American women the right to vote. A socially prominent wife and mother in Nashville, Anne Dudley organized the Nashville Equal Suffrage League in 1911, became president of the Tennessee League and a vice-president of the national organization. A woman of great charm and political skill, she and her organization spear-headed the successful campaign to make Tennessee the "perfect 36", the state to cast the deciding vote for the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Following the ratification, Mrs. Dudley was the first woman delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention. In both World Wars, she served on the National Board of Relief committees.Cornelia Fort was the first woman pilot to die on active duty, the first Tennessee service woman to die in World War II and Nashville's first woman flight instructor. Born the fourth child in a wealthy and prominent family in Nashville, Cornelia Fort graduated fro Sarah Lawrence College at the age of twenty. She became enthralled with flying and earned both her pilot and instructor licenses. While teaching flying in Hawaii, Cornelia Fort witnessed the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. When war was declared, she becoame part of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Cornelia Fort had logged more than 1.100 hours of flying time when another plane crashed into her, killing her instantly. Her epitaph proudly reads "Killed in the Service of Her Country."
Son and nephew of the founders of Hatch Show Print, Will Hatch has been called an "innovator." As manager of Hatch Show Print from the 1920s to the 1980s, he elevated the medium of show posters into an art form. Hatch grew up watching his father and uncle craft the posters from hand-carved woodblocks. He took over management of the business in the early 1920s and was responsible for the design and production of many of the entertainment posters posted on buildings throughout the South to promote pre- and post-war era traveling shows, including carnivals, circuses, actors and opera singers, blues and jazz performers, fairs, movies, and then the Grand Ole Opry.
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States and a champion of the "common man." Born in the Waxhaw settlements of South Carolina, Jackson was an orphan by the age of fourteen. His father died before he was born; his mother and two brothers died in the Revolutionary War. After the war, Jackson went to live with relatives. As a young man he studied law and came to Nashville in 1788 as the public prosecutor. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1796, to the U.S. Senate in 1797, and to the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1798. During the War of 1812, he rose to national fame as hero of the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. Although the Treaty of Ghent had been signed two weeks before, Jackson's remarkable victory signified the end of the war and the defeat of the British. In 1828, he was elected president of the United States and served two terms. He returned to Nashville in 1837 and died at his home, The Hermitage, twelve miles northeast of Nashville.
JACKSON, RACHEL DONELSON (1767-1828)

The tenth child of Colonel John Donelson, one of the founders of Nashville, Rachel Jackson was the beloved wife of Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States. Rachel Jackson came to Nashville with her father's flotilla at the age of twelve years on their boat THE ADVENTURE. She met her future husband when he was boarding at her mother's house. At the time she was married but separated from her husband Lewis Robards of Kentucky. Robards eventually asked for a divorce and Rachel and Andrew were married in 1791. Two years later, they discovered that they had married before the divorce was final, and they remarried. The charge of adultery, however,--the problem of marrying before the divorce was final -- was used against Jackson in his campaigns for the presidency. A quiet, gentle person, Rachel was known for her warm hospitality, her love of flowers, and her religious devotion. She and Andrew had no children of their own but adopted one of her nephews, who became Andrew Jackson, Jr. Rachel Jackson died in December just after her husband won his campaign for the presidency.
JONES, THE REVEREND SAM (1847-1906)Born in Alabama, The Rev. Sam Jones was a Southern Methodist itinerant minister and revival leader whose passionate sermons at a meeting in Nashville in 1885 inspired Captain Tom Ryman to raise money for an all-faith meeting hall -- the Union Gospel Tabernacle, now Ryman Auditorium. Jones initially trained as a lawyer and worked with his father. He developed problems with alcohol, but as his father was dying, promised him that he would abstain from drinking for the rest of his life. After his father's death, Jones joined the Southern Methodist Church and became an itinerant minister in northern Georgia. He was a powerful speaker who spoke against selfishness, alcoholism, and greed. His message and forceful delivery brought him invitations to speak throughout the South. When he came to Nashville and spoke under a tent at the corner of Eighth Avenue, South, and Broadway, thousands came to hear him, among them Tom Ryman. When Captain Ryman died in 1904, his funeral was held in the building he helped to erect. Jones came to Nashville to lead the funeral service, and it was he who suggested that the tabernacle's name be changed to Ryman Auditorium.

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