Index to Locations
Crystal City Rose Lawn Memorial
Gardens
De Soto City Cemetery
De Soto Woodlawn Memorial Park
Festus Gamel Cemetery
Herculaneum Daniel Dunklin Grave State
Historic Site
Hillsboro Hillsboro Cemetery
Near Pevely Sandy Baptist Cemetery
Rose Lawn
Memorial Gardens
1101 Missouri Avenue
Crystal City, Jefferson County, Missouri
Founded 1931
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
City
Cemetery
De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri
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George Alfred Auerswald (1856-1928) —
also known as George A. Auerswald —
of De Soto, Jefferson
County, Mo.
Born in New York, December
1, 1856.
Republican. Physician;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jefferson County, 1909-10,
1917-18; Missouri Pure Food and Drug Commissioner.
German
ancestry.
Died in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., August
29, 1928 (age 71 years, 272
days).
Interment at City Cemetery.
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Woodlawn Memorial
Park
De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri
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Isaac Newton Threlkeld (1872-1954) —
also known as I. N. Threlkeld —
of Elvins (now part of Park Hills), St.
Francois County, Mo.
Born in Du Quoin, Perry
County, Ill., March
14, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Francois County, 1921-22.
Died in De Soto, Jefferson
County, Mo., November
1, 1954 (age 82 years, 232
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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Gamel
Cemetery
Festus, Jefferson County, Missouri
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Joseph Scott Wolff (1878-1958) —
also known as J. Scott Wolff —
of Festus, Jefferson
County, Mo.; Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born near Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa., June 14,
1878.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; dentist;
lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jefferson County, 1913-14; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 13th District, 1923-25; defeated,
1924.
Died in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., February
27, 1958 (age 79 years, 258
days).
Interment at Gamel Cemetery.
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Daniel Dunklin
Grave State Historic Site
Herculaneum, Jefferson County, Missouri
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Daniel Dunklin (1790-1844) —
of Washington
County, Mo.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., January
14, 1790.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1828-32; Governor of
Missouri, 1832-36.
Died of pneumonia,
August
25, 1844 (age 54 years, 224
days).
Interment at Daniel Dunklin Grave State Historic Site.
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Hillsboro
Cemetery
Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri
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Clyde Williams (1873-1954) —
of Hillsboro, Jefferson
County, Mo.
Born in Jefferson
County, Mo., October
13, 1873.
Democrat. Lawyer; Jefferson
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1902-08; chair of
Jefferson County Democratic Party, 1921; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1927-29, 1931-43 (13th District
1927-29, 1931-33, at-large 1933-35, 8th District 1935-43); defeated,
1928 (13th District), 1942 (8th District); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1928;
banker.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., November
12, 1954 (age 81 years, 30
days).
Interment at Hillsboro Cemetery.
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Norvell William Emerson (1938-1996) —
also known as Bill Emerson —
of De Soto, Jefferson
County, Mo.; Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
1, 1938.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1981-96 (10th District 1981-83, 8th
District 1983-96); died in office 1996.
Presbyterian.
Died of lung
cancer, at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 22,
1996 (age 58 years, 173
days).
Interment at Hillsboro Cemetery.
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Samuel Byrns (1848-1914) —
of Jefferson
County, Mo.
Born in Jefferson
County, Mo., March 4,
1848.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jefferson County, 1877-78;
member of Missouri
state senate 26th District, 1879-82; member of Missouri
Democratic State Central Committee, 1886-88; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1891-93.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in De Soto, Jefferson
County, Mo., July 9,
1914 (age 66 years, 127
days).
Interment at Hillsboro Cemetery.
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Arthur T. Brewster (1876-1958) —
of Ironton, Iron
County, Mo.; Pevely, Jefferson
County, Mo.
Born in Hillsboro, Jefferson
County, Mo., January
30, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 13th District, 1918, 1920, 1922
(primary); member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jefferson County, 1941-42,
1945-46.
Died in Poplar Bluff, Butler
County, Mo., December
23, 1958 (age 82 years, 327
days).
Interment at Hillsboro Cemetery.
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Sandy Baptist
Cemetery
Near Pevely, Jefferson County, Missouri
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Walter Lewis Hensley (1871-1946) —
also known as Walter L. Hensley —
of Farmington, St.
Francois County, Mo.
Born near Pevely, Jefferson
County, Mo., September
3, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer; St.
Francois County Prosecuting Attorney, 1898-1902; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 13th District, 1911-19; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1919-20.
Died in Ludington, Mason
County, Mich., July 18,
1946 (age 74 years, 318
days).
Interment at Sandy Baptist Cemetery.
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