Ste. Geneviève’s Memorial Cemetery…

The Final Resting Place

Considered the oldest cemetery in Missouri, the Memorial Cemetery is home to around 275 tombstones while the number of people buried there is between 3500 to 5000.

Among those individuals are a US senator and his wife who have been buried 3 TIMES! It’s also the final resting place for Missouri’s first United States representative. 

The wide range of peoples interred in the Memorial Cemetery are indicative of the confluence of Ste. Geneviève’s population.

The cemetery was a communal burying ground including early pioneers – Africans both enslaved and free, Native Americans, both American Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers, and a mass burial site for victims of a local steamboat explosion among others.