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Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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He was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, the same resting place as his Medal of Honor co-recipients, Hammel and Pesch. A 1982 American Heritage magazine article labeled him a "turbid Victorian hack", though it did concede he was technically gifted. [6] Some of his photographs are held by the Library of Congress. [9]
On the northeast (front) side of the tomb is the entrance with a double-leafed bronze grill and double-doors. The sides of the tomb each have windows, also covered in bronze grills. The limestone walls are carved with floral patterns that do not repeat. The interior of the tomb has two burial slabs and a mosaic floor and ceiling. The Wainwright ...
Calvary Cemetery opened for burials in 1854, with Archbishop Kenrick as its first president. [citation needed] Prior to the establishment of Calvary Cemetery, parts of the Clay farm had served as a burial place for Native Americans and soldiers from nearby Fort Bellefontaine. After 1854, these remains were reinterred in a mass grave under a ...
Burial place: Bellefontaine Cemetery: Occupation: Railroad executive: Signature; Samuel Wesley "Colonel" Fordyce (February 7, 1840 – August 3, 1919) was a prominent ...
The death of his wife in 1881 was very hard on him, and his final years were marked by poverty and ill health. By 1898 he was an invalid, and he died on November 19. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
Bonneville died at age 82 in 1878. He is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Bonneville was eligible to join both the Aztec Club of 1847 and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, military societies for officers who had served in the Mexican War and American Civil War, respectively, but he did not join ...