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Status as of 23 April 2023
The Metro Historical Commission Foundation found it was unable to manage the growing list of historical cemeteries signing
up for their maintenance services. As a result I received the remaining funds, $6,550.00 for Philips Sylvan Hall Cemetery
maintenance from the Foundation dated 2/22/23 and deposited them into a savings account.
It has taken a long time to locate someone who would mow the cemetery and properly take care of it. I have arranged for the
person who mowed our front yard in Hendersonville TN to mow the cemetery four times a year, including picking up limbs and
keeping vines from growing in the rock fence for $100 per visit. I tried to engage the company the Metro Historical Society
Foundation was using, but they did not have any interest. Jeff will send me photos every time he mows the cemetery and I
will pay him using the maintenance funds.
My wife Janice and I have moved to a golf course community in Walton County GA near hwy 316, about 20 miles from Athens GA,
the home of the Georgia Bulldogs. I will continue to direct and pay for the maintenance of the cemetery from here. Look at
the pictures taken at each maintenance interval for the past two years, 2023 and 2024, and you will see the cemetery looks
great.
If you can donate anything to help pay for the continued maintenance of the cemetery, it will be appreciated.
I have revised the donation form below to provide for sending it to me without the donor receiving a tax-free donation.
Link to download the below Donation Sheet:
Microsoft Word Link to fill on computer
Adobe Acrobat pdf file link to fill by hand
Below is how we managed the cemetery maintenance from 2019 to 2023. This is no longer available to us.
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April 2023 - Early in 2019 the Metro Nashville
Historical Commission Foundation agreed to take on a project to manage the maintenance of certain historical cemeteries located
in Davidson County, the funding of which would come from friends and descendants of those buried in the cemeteries. The Gower Cemetery located in West Nashville off River Road was the first
cemetery in this program. The Philips Sylvan Hall
Cemetery was the second cemetery included in the program. A
maintenance agreement was signed early in July between Tim Walker, Executive Director of the Historical Commission, myself
representing the friends and family of those buried in the cemetery, and Dan Allen who had did most of the 2013 restoration
of the cemetery and who now has agreed to provide regular maintenance. Those who participated in the 2013 restoration know that since that time I have been personally maintaining
the cemetery. At 82 years of age, I had reached an age where it was difficult for me to continue. We counted on the generosity of the many friends and relatives of those
buried in the cemetery to continue to maintain this final resting place of our ancestors for the next 200 plus years. We used the form similar to the form on the right to make donations to
the Metro Historical Commission Foundation for the Sylvan Hall Cemetery Maintenance Fund and you mailed your check and
completed form to: Larry Feldhaus
102 Doral Ln
Hendersonville, TN 37075. I acknowledged receipt
of the donations, keep track of the donations, and forwarded them on to the Metro Historical Commission Foundation where they
were placed in the Philips Sylvan Hall Cemetery Account and used solely for maintenance of that cemetery with my approval. The Foundation mailed receipts to each of the donors as proof of their
tax exempt donation to this 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Foundation
provided me in January of each year a report detailing all receipts and disbursements for this account. I posted the
report on this web site.
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Sunnyside Mansion is the home of the Nashville Metro Historical
Society and their Foundation. It's located in Sevier Park near Belmont University.
Links to web sites for the organizations mentioned on this
page:
Metro HIstorical Commission
Metro HIstorical Commision Foundation
Gower Cemetery Fund
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