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Benjamin Franklin Cheatham was a Nashville native and a descendant of the city s founder James Robertson Born in 1820 he achieved fame through his military service in the Mexican War and especially the Civil War After the war Cheatham farmed ran for Congress and at the time of his death in 1866 was postmaster of Nashville Cheatham was one of Nashville s most popular sons and his funeral which drew some thirty thousand people was reportedly the largest ever held in the city