While surfing the internet, I had an interest on what history happened in Saint Louis. Dred Scott and William T. Sherman caught my eye. What interested me about this is why do locals place Lincoln pennies on Dred Scotts head stone. Dred Scott fought for his freedom right here in Saint Louis, in the "Old Courthouse". He was finally freed nine months before he died of tuberculosis in 1858. Because of Dred Scott, Abraham Lincoln would be elected president, the south secedes from the union, and all those in bondage would be freed in 1865. William Tecumsah Sherman or "Uncle Billy" was a Union Civil War General in the western theater, known for his "March to the Sea", while burning and destroying everything in his path. General Sherman lived in Saint Louis for a short time during the secession crisis, and was the president of the St. Louis Railroad, a streetcar company.
Notable people layed to rest here at Bellefontaine: General Sterling Price of the Missouri State Guard, Union General Don Carlos Buell, Adolphus Busch of Amhueser-Busch, William Clark of Lewis and Clark, Union General General John McNeil, and Irma S.Rombauer author of The Joy of Cooking.
Other notable people layed to rest here at Calvary: Confederate General Daniel M. Frost, and Thomas Caute Reynolds, second Confederate Govenor of Missouri. Govenor Claiborne Jackson was the first. Pictured above is Union General William Techumsah Sherman and Dred Scott, both layed to rest in Calvary, also.
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