Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
St. Charles Unknown location
St. Charles Lindenwood College
Cemetery
St. Charles Oak Grove Cemetery
Private or family
graveyard
St. Charles County,
Politicians formerly
buried here: |
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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) —
Born in Berks
County, Pa., November
2, 1734.
Explorer and frontiersman; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1781, 1787.
English
and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in St. Charles
County, Mo., September
26, 1820 (age 85 years, 329
days).
Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment
at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Relatives:
Married to Rebecca Ann Bryan; father of Jessie
Bryan Boone and Nathan
Boone; grandfather of Harriett Morgan Boone (who married Hiram
Howell Baber); granduncle of Levi
Day Boone; second great-grandfather of Elmer
Charless Henderson. |
|  | Political family: Boone
family of St. Charles County, Missouri (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Boone counties in Ark., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
|  | The Daniel Boone National
Forest (established 1937 as Cumberland National Forest; renamed
1966), in Bath,
Clay,
Estill,
Harlan,
Jackson,
Knox,
Laurel,
Lee,
Leslie,
McCreary,
Menifee,
Morgan,
Owsley,
Perry,
Powell,
Pulaski,
Rockcastle,
Rowan,
Wayne,
Whitley,
and Wolfe
counties, Kentucky, is named for
him. — Boone Dam
(built 1950-52), on the South Fork Holston River, in Sullivan
and Washington
counties, Tennessee, and the Boone Lake
reservoir behind the dam, are named for
him. |
|  | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Unknown
Location
St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri
Politicians buried
here: |
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Joshua Barton (1792-1823) —
of Missouri.
Born in Jefferson
County, Tenn., July 28,
1792.
Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1820-21; resigned 1821; U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1822-23.
Killed
in a duel with
Thomas C. Rector, on Bloody Island, St.
Louis, Mo., June 30,
1823 (age 30 years, 337
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Lindenwood
College Cemetery
St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri
Politicians buried
here: |
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Rufus Easton (1774-1834) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., May 4,
1774.
Postmaster at St.
Louis, Mo., 1804-15; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Missouri Territory, 1814-16; Missouri
state attorney general, 1821-26.
Slaveowner.
Died in St. Charles, St. Charles
County, Mo., July 5,
1834 (age 60 years, 62
days).
Interment at Lindenwood College Cemetery.
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Oak Grove
Cemetery
St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri
Politicians buried
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Andrew King (1812-1895) —
of St. Charles, St.
Charles County, Mo.
Born in Greenbrier
County, Va. (now W.Va.), March
20, 1812.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state senate 1st District, 1846-47; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Charles County, 1858-59;
U.S.
Representative from Missouri 9th District, 1871-73.
Slaveowner.
Died November
18, 1895 (age 83 years, 243
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Osmund Haenssler (1886-1949) —
Born in St. Charles
County, Mo., September
26, 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 9th District, 1926.
German
ancestry.
Died in St. Charles, St. Charles
County, Mo., November
14, 1949 (age 63 years, 49
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Reinhart Conrad Haenssler (1856-1917) —
also known as R. C. Haenssler —
of St. Charles, St.
Charles County, Mo.
Born in Germany,
November
13, 1856.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Missouri
Republican State Committee, 1896-98; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Charles County, 1913-17;
died in office 1917.
Methodist.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Maccabees;
Knights
of Pythias; Royal
Arcanum.
Died in St. Charles, St. Charles
County, Mo., June 24,
1917 (age 60 years, 223
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Guy C. Motley (1885-1949) —
of St. Charles, St.
Charles County, Mo.
Born in Pike
County, Mo., August
6, 1885.
Democrat. Democratic Presidential Elector for Missouri, 1936
(voted for Franklin
D. Roosevelt and John
Nance Garner); chair of
St. Charles County Democratic Party, 1939; candidate for Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Charles County, 1944.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Scott
County, Mo., December
27, 1949 (age 64 years, 143
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Brewis Webster Motley and Mary Ann (Stone) Motley; married to
Blanche Green. |
|  | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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