bellefontaine and calvary cemeteries

Bellefontaine Cemetery (established in 1849) and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery (established in 1857) in St. Louis, Missouri are adjacent burial grounds. They are the necropolis for a number of prominent local and state politicians and soldiers of the American Civil War.

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 (1889-1975), artist
William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997), author
Adolphus Busch (1838-1913), brewing magnate
William Chauvenet (1820-1870), scholar, educator
William Clark (1770-1838), explorer
Alban Jasper Conant (1821-1915), artist, author, educator
Phoebe Wilson Couzins (1842-1913) pioneer suffragette
James Eads (1820-1887) important steel product maker
Della May Fox (1870-1913), actress, singer
David R. Francis (1850-1927), statesman
Jessie L. Gaynor (1863-1921), composer of children's music
Caroline Janis (1864-1952), painter and sculptor, member of "The Potters"
James Smith McDonnell (1899-1980), founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
Mary Marshall Rexford (1915-1996), Red Cross worker and the first woman to land on Utah Beach on D-Day
Irma Rombauer (1877-1982), author of The Joy of Cooking
Henry Miller Shreve (1785-1854), inventor
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Carl Whitney (1919-1986), Negro League baseball player

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

Kate Chopin (1851-1904), author
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
Dred Scott (1799-1858), freed slave, subject of important U.S. Supreme Court case
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), American Civil War general
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright