St. Louis Cemeteries - F

Cemetery Name:  Father Moses Dickson

Location: 845 Sappington Road, Crestwood
Year Opened:  1903
Year Closed:  
Type or Affiliation: African American
Number of Burials: 12861
Removals To and From:
Old Cemeteries of St. Louis Vol. (Pg.):
StLGS CD Vol. Number: 2
StLGS CD Ref. Number: F03
Fiche / Film: 0
Sacred Green Space (Pg.): 431
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Notes: Friends of Father Dickinson Cemetery maintain the grounds.

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Cemetery Name:  Fine

Location: Fine Road, Oakville
Year Opened:  
Year Closed:  
Type or Affiliation: Family
Number of Burials: 11
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Old Cemeteries of St. Louis Vol. (Pg.):
StLGS CD Vol. Number: 2
StLGS CD Ref. Number: F06
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Notes: Located on private property belonging to power company.

Cemetery Name:  First Missionary Baptist

Location: 14483 Clayton Rd. Chesterfield
Year Opened:  1890
Year Closed:  by 2002
Type or Affiliation: African American
Number of Burials: 19
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Old Cemeteries of St. Louis Vol. (Pg.):
StLGS CD Vol. Number: 2
StLGS CD Ref. Number: B03
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Sacred Green Space (Pg.): 415
Additional Sources: Chesterfield, Missouri Cemeteries, R 977.865 M575C
Notes: AKA: Ballwin Missionary Baptist. Abandonded - only a few stones remaining in woods on the northwest corner of Clayton and Henry / Schoettler roads.

Cemetery Name:  Forever Bellerieve

Location: 740 N. Mason Rd. Creve Coeur.
Year Opened:  1925
Year Closed:  
Type or Affiliation: Non-sectarian
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Old Cemeteries of St. Louis Vol. (Pg.):
StLGS CD Vol. Number: 3
StLGS CD Ref. Number: B12
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Sacred Green Space (Pg.): 534
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Notes: AKA: Bellerive Heritage Garden, Hiram Park.

Cemetery Name:  Franklin - Pratt Cemetery

Location: Franklin (MLK) and Pratte (Jefferson)
Year Opened:  1831
Year Closed:  1851
Type or Affiliation: Catholic / Public
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Removals To: Calvary, Bridget of Erin, Rock Spring           
Removals From:  St Louis King of France (AKA: Old Catholic)
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Notes: Between 1823-1836, three cemeteries were established at the intersection of St Charles Road (AKA: Franklin AKA: Martin Luther King) and Pratte (AKA: Jefferson).  East of Pratte was a Presbyterian cemetery (est. before 1836), west of Pratte was a mixed Catholic / Public cemetery (deeded 1824), and west of the Catholic / Protestant was a Methodist cemetery (deeded 1828).  Plan of the City of St. Louis, 1850 - a map by Julius Hutawa documents the location of these three cemeteries.  Significant mis-information exists regarding these three cemeteries. .

Bodies were removed from Old Catholic (St. Louis King of France) Cemetery to the “New Catholic Cemetery” located at Franklin-Pratte. Cemetery was initially Public but became Catholic as neighboring Protestant Cemeteries were opened. Cemetery was abandoned sometime following the Cholera epidemic of 1849 but still appears on J.H. Colton’s Map of St. Louis 1855. 12 Oct 1864 the Missouri Republican reported deplorable conditions at the cemetery and bodies were exhumed and moved to Calvary, Rock Spring, and the vault at Bridget of Erin. Among the bodies removed to Bridget of Erin were a number of known Methodists- leading to some speculation that the Methodist and Catholic Cemeteries were not well-defined. Very few records exist for burials at the Franklin-Pratte cemeteries. 

Cemetery Name:  Friedens

Location: 8941 North Broadway
Year Opened:  1864
Year Closed:  
Type or Affiliation: United Church of Christ/Non-sectarian
Number of Burials: 31164
Removals To and From:
Old Cemeteries of St. Louis Vol. (Pg.):
StLGS CD Vol. Number: 2
StLGS CD Ref. Number: F14
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Sacred Green Space (Pg.): 195
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Notes: AKA: Kopf (Koph) Cemetery. Rev. Kopf was founding pastor of Frieden's United Church of Christ Evangelical Church.  1857 - 30 acres of a former indian burial ground purchased. 1864- cemetery est., first burials.  First recorded burial 1877.  In early years:  Friedens first alternative burial place for mixed religious marriages.  It had an area for work horeses - pine tree planted for each horse buried there in 1920s - 8 known horses in area 100' wide.  Cemetery still open and active.