Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries Totally Explained

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Bellefontaine Cemetery (established in 1849) and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery (established in 1857) in St. Louis, Missouri are adjacent burial grounds, home to a number of historic and extravagant graves and mausoleums. Although they're the necropolis for a number of prominent local and state politicians and soldiers of the American Civil War, the neighborhoods around the cemeteries are among the roughest in St. Louis, particularly to the immediate west and south.
The cemeteries were established after the cholera epidemic of 1849. The original St. Louis cemetery was by Old Cathedral in Downtown St. Louis. Those bodies (including that of city co-founder Auguste Chouteau) were part of the move.
Burials from an African-American cemetery at Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport were reinterred here in the 1990s.

Bellefontaine

Bellefontaine Cemetery at 4947 W Florissant, St. Louis, is the burial grounds for prominent pioneers to the West. It is also the resting place for several victims of the 1855 railway accident known as the Gasconade Bridge train disaster. Also buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery are a number of the famous Busch and Lemp family of brewers.

Notable Bellefontaine burials

Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858), U.S. Senator
Henry Taylor Blow (1817–1875), politician, statesman
Susan Blow (1843–1916), educator
Francis E. Brownell (1840-1894), Soldier during the American Civil War, Medal of Honor recipient
Don Carlos Buell (1818–1898), American Civil War general (Union)
William Seward Burroughs (1857–1898), inventor
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author
Adolphus Busch (1838–1913), brewing magnate
William Chauvenet (1820–1870), scholar, educator
Martin L. Clardy (1844–1914), U.S. Representative
William Clark (1770–1838), explorer
Charles B. Clarke (1836–1899), prominent architect, designer of the Fagin Building (1888)
Nathan Cole (1825–1904), U.S. Representative and Mayor of St. Louis
Alban Jasper Conant (1821–1915), artist, author, educator
Phoebe Wilson Couzins (1842–1913), pioneer suffragette
Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), baseball player
James Eads (1820–1887), engineer and inventor
Aaron W. Fagin (1812–1896), milling magnate, millionaire, and builder of the Fagin Building (1888)
Gustavus A. Finkelnburg (1837–1908), U.S. Representative and Federal Judge
Della May Fox (1870–1913), actress, singer
David R. Francis (1850–1927), statesman, United States Secretary of the Interior
Frederick D. Gardner (1869-1933), governor of Missouri and St. Louis funeral director and coffin manufacturer
Jessie L. Gaynor (1863–1921), composer of children's music
Henry S. Geyer (1790–1859), U.S. Senator, lawyer
Benjamin Howard (1760–1814), first governor of Missouri Territory
Anthony F. Ittner (1837–1931), Missouri politician, brick manufacturer
Caroline Janis (1864–1952), painter and sculptor, member of "The Potters"
Albert Bond Lambert (1875–1946), aviator
Naphtali Luccock (1853–1916), a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
James Smith McDonnell (1899–1980), founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
Charles Nagel, last United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor, lawyer
Trusten Polk (1811–1876), elected both governor and U.S. senator in 1856
Sterling Price (1809–1867), American Civil War general (Confederate)
Mary Marshall Rexford (1915–1996), Red Cross worker and the first woman to land on Utah Beach on D-Day
James McIlvaine Riley (1849–1911), Co-founder of Sigma Nu International Fraternity
Irma S. Rombauer (1877–1962), author of The Joy of Cooking
James Semple (1798–1866), Illinois state senator
Henry Miller Shreve (1785–1851), inventor
Luther Ely Smith (1873-1951), founder of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Theodore Spiering (1871–1925), violinist, conductor, and teacher
Edwin O. Stanard (1832–1914), Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and U.S. Representative
George Strother (1783–1840), Virginia congressman and lawyer, collector of public money in St. Louis (reinterment)
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Charlotte Dickson Wainwright, within architect Louis Sullivan's 1892 Wainwright Tomb
Erastus Wells (1823–1893), U.S. Representative and businessman

Calvary

Calvary Cemetery, at 5239 W. Florissant Avenue, St. Louis is a 477 acre (1.9 km²) Roman Catholic cemetery established in 1857. It is the burial place for several members of the Chouteau family who were co-founders of the city of St. Louis and whose descendant was part of the ceremony for the Louisiana Purchase. Some of the old burials and tombstones were transferred to Calvary Cemetery from much older Catholic cemeteries originally existing in what is now the downtown area of the city.

Notable Calvary burials

Mary Odilia Berger (1823-1880), founder of Franciscan Sisters of Mary which operates hospitals in Midwest

Lewis V. Bogy (1813 - 1877) United States Senator

Kate Chopin (1851-1904), author

René Auguste Chouteau (1740-1829), fur trader, cofounder of the city of St. Louis

Black Eagle (unknown-1831), Nez Perce leader

Speaking Eagle (unknown-1831), Nez Perce leader

Daniel M. Frost (1823 - 1900), CSA General

Robert E. Hannegan (1903 - 1949), Saint Louis politician

John Baptiste Charles Lucas (1758-1842), U.S. Representative who donated the land for the Old Courthouse

Thomas Caute Reynolds (1821-1887), second Confederate governor of Missouri

Dred Scott (1799-1858), freed slave, subject of important U.S. Supreme Court case

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), American Civil War general (Union)

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright

Carl Whitney (1919-1986), Negro League baseball playerFurther Information

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