Forrest reinterment plans being made following end to lawsuits

By , Daily Memphian Updated: May 12, 2020 5:00 PM CT | Published: May 12, 2020 4:32 PM CT

A final lawsuit over the grave site of the Confederate General, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard was dropped this week and legal filings toward moving the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife should be filed in Chancery Court soon.

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