Mary Kate Patterson House: 158 Fergus Dr., La Vergne

Confederate spy Mary Kate Patterson lived here from the mid-1880s to the early 1920s. During the Civil War, in 1863 she brought provisions to Confederate scout Sam Davis before his capture and may have helped with the identification and return of his body after he was hanged. Widowed three times, she was the first woman buried in the Confederate Circle at Nashville’s Mt. Olivet Cemetery, a primary site for white Tennesseans’ memorialization of the Civil War and glorification of the “Lost Cause” for decades after the war.