Bellefontaine Cemetery (established in 1849) and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery (established in 1857) in St. Louis, Missouri are adjacent burial grounds, home to a number of historic and extravagant graves and mausoleums. Although they are the necropolis for a number of prominent local and state politicians and soldiers of the American Civil War, the neighborhoods around the cemeteries are among the roughest in St. Louis, particularly to the immediate west and south. The cemeteries were established after the cholera epidemic of 1849; burials in what is now downtown Saint Louis were relocated here. Burials from an African-American cemetery at Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport were reinterred here in the 1990s.
BellefontaineThomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), artist
Henry Taylor Blow (1817-1875), politician, statesman
Susan Blow (1843-1916), educator
Don Carlos Buell (1818-1898), American Civil War general (Union)
William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997), author
Adolphus Busch (1838-1913), brewing magnate
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
James Eads (1820-1887) important steel product maker
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
Jessie L. Gaynor (1863-1921), composer of children's music
Henry S. Geyer (1790-1859), U.S. Senator, lawyer
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"
James Smith McDonnell (1899-1980), founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
Charles Nagel, 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 (1785-1854), inventor
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
