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The Old Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau, Missouri was established between 1806 and 1808 by Louis Lorimier. [2] The cemetery is located at 500 North Fountain Street overlooking the Mississippi River. [3] There are believed to be more than 6,500 graves in the cemetery, most of them unmarked.
Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties in the Missouri Territory after the US made the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer stationed 1704–1720 at Kaskaskia in the Illinois Country of New France.
George Christian Thilenius (August 20, 1829 – July 7, 1910) was a German-born American politician, soldier, and businessman from the state of Missouri. He is known for the being a Missouri state representative, mayor of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and for the Colonel George C. Thilenius House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The majority of Cape Girardeau (in Cape Girardeau County) is in Cape Girardeau Public Schools. [33] Alma Schrader Elementary – 1360 Randol Ave; Blanchard Elementary – 1829 N Sprigg St; Clippard Elementary – 2880 Hopper Road; Franklin Elementary – 1550 Themis St; Jefferson Elementary – 520 S Minnesota Ave; Central Middle School ...
King Louis IX (1214–1270), King of France from 1226 until his death 987,059: 508 sq mi (1,316 km 2) Saint Louis City: 510: St. Louis: 1876: Created in 1876 when city residents voted to secede from St. Louis County: King Louis IX (1214–1270), King of France from 1226 until his death 281,754: 61.9 sq mi (160 km 2) Sainte Genevieve County: 186 ...
Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. United States Courthouse in Cape Girardeau. Rush Limbaugh Sr. died on April 8, 1996. He was 104 years old at the time of his death. Limbaugh's descendants include jurists Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr., Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., and grandsons [7] radio commentator Rush H. Limbaugh III and attorney and political commentator ...
Robert Macey Talbert (September 23, 1880 – January 31, 1952 [2]) was an American politician from Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, in the United States, who served in the Missouri House of Representatives. He was a chaplain for the National Guard, the Missouri state senate in 1925, and the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1922. [3]
Missouri Historical Society photo from the Cape Girardeau County web site. Robert Henry Whitelaw (January 30, 1854 – July 27, 1937) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Born on a farm near Lloyds, Virginia, Whitelaw moved with his father to Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, in 1856. He returned to Essex County, Virginia, in 1866.