How a headstone in a Madison cemetery connects to Edmondson, Tennessee Gov. William Carroll and Old Nashville's Black community

Olive Branch Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery was founded in the terrifying, uncertain times of Reconstruction

People and their descendants had their lives stolen from them by slavery, and now they’ve got their deaths stolen by development

I headed out to the Pegram area to look for gravestones made by the legendary local Black artist 

Whether or not this is where people from The Hermitage and Tulip Grove who died in slavery were buried, it's a spot that is historically significant