Paris City Cemetery

Find many notable burials such as Tennessee Governor James D. Porter; General J. D. C. Atkins, Confederate and U.S. congressman; John Wesley Crockett, U.S. congressman and son of pioneer Davy Crockett, and Dr. Edwin Wiley Grove, pharmaceutical magnate and builder of the famed Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina. Also find the African-American Monument in memory of the former slaves and freedmen who worked in Paris before the Civil War. The monument is located in front of historic Quinn Chapel AME Church, a block south of Ruff Street.