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[1] [2] The crematory is located at 3211 Sublette Avenue in St. Louis, just across from the State Mental Hospital off of Arsenal Street. Now called "Valhalla's Hillcrest Abbey" it is owned by the Zell Family, who also own the Valhalla Chapel and Memorial Park on St. Charles Rock Road.
In 2003, a Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Grant funded the construction of a monument at Calvary Cemetery to honor four Nez Perce men who had traveled to St. Louis in 1831 from their home in present-day Idaho. When they arrived in St. Louis, these men had to rely on hand gestures to communicate, as they could find no one who spoke their language.
The first cremation took place on December 6, 1876. LeMoyne believed that cremation was a more sanitary way to dispose of bodies, preventing the contamination of drinking water. [4] After 41 more cremations there (with LeMoyne being the third, in 1879), the crematory was closed in 1901. LeMoyne's remains are buried there. [2]
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Mike Shannon (1939-2023), affiliated with St. Louis Cardinals for over 50 years, as a player (1962–1970), in front office, and, since 1972, radio and TV announcer; Scott Shannon (born 1947), a radio disk jockey hosting WCBS-FM in New York City. Augustus Shapleigh (1810–1902), president of Shapleigh Hardware Company and early pioneer of St ...
Frederic Charles Urquhart (27 October 1858 – 2 December 1935) was a Native Police officer, Queensland Police Commissioner and Administrator of the Northern Territory. Early life [ edit ]
In 2015, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay launched an effort to have the monument removed. [3] He appointed a committee of business and civic interests, which later that year recommended its removal. [4] in June 2017, the monument was removed from Forest Park, [5] one of at least 36 Confederate memorials removed that year from locations around the ...
Urquhart was born in Glasgow as Mary Sinclair Urquhart. [1] [2] She was the daughter of post office clerk Ann McCallum and sea-going engineer William Urquhart. [3] She grew up in the West End of Glasgow where she attended Downhill Primary School and Church Street School. [3] After school, she worked in a shop and took the exam to work for the ...