In the continued documentation of small family cemeteries in St. Charles County, we now reach this one off Highway 94. Surrounded by a concrete wall that is hidden behind a plastic white picket fence, it seems there are only nine known graves in the cemetery. There is very little information about the cemetery’s history, but…
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Wainwright Tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery
I was visiting Bellefontaine Cemetery and was pleasantly surprised that the Wainwright Tomb recently underwent routine cleaning, making it look better than ever. Go check it out if you haven’t ever or if it’s been a while.
Around the Family Farm, Spring 2024
I checked up on the family farm east of Peoria in Central Illinois the last weekend of April, and things were looking good even if the fields were very wet, delaying spring planting. It was very windy, and it was alternating sunny and cloudy all day long. No longhorns could be spotted at the neighbor’s…
Lost Weldon Spring, Part Three: A Quarry and A Cemetery
Heading north of Highway 94 in search of more cemeteries acquired by the federal government for the uranium processing grounds, we should have known taking the “Lost Valley Trail,” really an old farming road, was going to set ourselves up for an interesting day of exploration. First up, I noticed a break in the rocky…
Lost Weldon Spring, Part Two: Four Cemeteries
Four cemeteries in one day of grueling hiking through the bush! First up is the John Murdock Cemetery. It’s relatively small with just a handful of burials. Look for the plants that are out of place! We really like the Heinrich Schneider Cemetery, located relatively close by on the north side of Highway 94. Again,…
Lost Weldon Spring, Part One: Two Cemeteries
We’ll be exploring and revisiting the area around the Weldon Spring containment dome over the course of this year, exploring and finding the remnants of human habitation that were abandoned when the federal government bought out the residents around the plant that would eventually process the uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons. Here and there,…
Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph
Established in 1851, Mount Mora owes its current design to W. Angelo Powell in 1872. Like most of the cemeteries I show, this is a product of the rural cemetery movement begun at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. For a city of St. Joseph’s size, there are an insane number of mausolea! It just goes…
Krug Park and Two Cemeteries, St. Joseph
One of the focal points of St. Joseph is Krug Park, which is a fairly rugged plot of land on the northern side of the city. There is a system of parkways that connects much of the city (and is difficult to photograph) and they sweep around St. Joseph connecting parks such as Krug. In…
Joseph Robidoux IV and Jesse James, St. Joseph
It was a little later, in 1843, that St. Joseph was incorporated as a city, laid on the groundwork of a French American Joseph Robidoux IV. His mark on the city is still present to this day in the east-west streets coming out of downtown, which are named after his children. Robidoux was active in…
Gumbo Cemetery, Chesterfield
Largely ignored by commuters and shoppers heading to the “lifestyle center” along Chesterfield Airport Road, Gumbo Cemetery has roots going back to the purchase of the land by German American immigrant George Krönung. It’s fairly large, and slopes up an incline. There are recent graves, including members of the Sappington Family. Long Road, which once…