Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries - Notable Bellefontaine Burials

Notable Bellefontaine Burials

• Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858), U.S. Senator
• Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (1821–1875), American Civil War general (Union), politician
• Henry Taylor Blow (1817–1875), politician, statesman
• Susan Blow (1843–1916), educator
• Francis E. Brownell (1840–1894), soldier during the American Civil War, Medal of Honor recipient
• Don Carlos Buell (1818–1898), American Civil War general (Union)
• William Seward Burroughs (1857–1898), inventor
• William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author
• Adolphus Busch (1838–1913), brewing magnate
• Robert Campbell (1804–1879), frontiersman, banker, real estate mogul, steamboat owner
• William Chauvenet (1820–1870), scholar, educator
• Martin L. Clardy (1844–1914), U.S. Representative
• William Clark (1770–1838), explorer
• Charles B. Clarke (1836–1899), prominent architect, designer of the Fagin Building (1888)
• Nathan Cole (1825–1904), U.S. Representative and Mayor of St. Louis
• Alban Jasper Conant (1821–1915), artist, author, educator
• Phoebe Wilson Couzins (1842–1913), pioneer suffragette
• Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), baseball player
• James Eads (1820–1887), engineer and inventor
• Aaron W. Fagin (1812–1896), milling magnate, millionaire, and builder of the Fagin Building (1888)
• Gustavus A. Finkelnburg (1837–1908), U.S. Representative and Federal Judge
• Della May Fox (1870–1913), actress, singer
• David R. Francis (1850–1927), statesman, United States Secretary of the Interior
• Frederick D. Gardner (1869–1933), governor of Missouri and St. Louis funeral director and coffin manufacturer
• Jessie L. Gaynor (1863–1921), composer of children's music
• Henry S. Geyer (1790–1859), U.S. Senator, lawyer
• James Eads How (1874–1930), son of wealthy St. Louis family, known as the "Millionaire Hobo"
• Benjamin Howard (1760–1814), first governor of Missouri Territory
• Anthony F. Ittner (1837–1931), Missouri politician, brick manufacturer
• Caroline Janis (1864–1952), painter and sculptor, member of "The Potters"
• Albert Bond Lambert (1875–1946), aviator
• John Edmund Liggett (1826–1897), owner of Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company, South St. Louis
• Theodore Link (1850–1923), architect of St. Louis Union Station
• Manuel Lisa (1772–1820), fur trader and explorer
• Naphtali Luccock (1853–1916), a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• James Smith McDonnell (1899–1980), founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
• Margaret A.E. McLure (1811–1902), First President of the first chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy
• John McNeil, Civil War general (Union)
• Charles Nagel (1849–1940), last United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor, lawyer
• Trusten Polk (1811–1876), elected both governor and U.S. senator in 1856
• Sterling Price (1809–1867), American Civil War general (Confederate)
• Mary Marshall Rexford (1915–1996), Red Cross worker and the first woman to land on Utah Beach on D-Day
• James McIlvaine Riley (1849–1911), Co-founder of Sigma Nu International Fraternity
• Irma S. Rombauer (1877–1962), author of The Joy of Cooking
• James Semple (1798–1866), Illinois state senator
• Henry Miller Shreve (1785–1851), steamboat pioneer, inventor, and namesake of Shreveport, Louisiana
• Luther Ely Smith (1873–1951), founder of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• Theodore Spiering (1871–1925), violinist, conductor, and teacher
• Edwin O. Stanard (1832–1914), Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and U.S. Representative
• George Strother (1783–1840), Virginia congressman and lawyer, collector of public money in St. Louis (reinterment)
• Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Charlotte Dickson Wainwright, within architect Louis Sullivan's 1892 Wainwright Tomb
• Erastus Wells (1823–1893), U.S. Representative and businessman