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[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Page Monument" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632751682695{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632751706167{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]This monument serves as a resting place for William M. (d. 1892) and Eliza J. (d. 1890). The totem-like red granite boulders forming an obelisk is unique among…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="General Sterling Price 1809–1867 General" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632836312824{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632836327076{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]General Sterling Price was a veteran of the Mexican War and governor of Missouri from 1852-1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he tried…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Captain Isaiah Sellers 1803–1864 Steamboat Captain" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632411438922{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632411465666{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]Captain Sellers was the most famous of the steamboat men plying the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans for more than 40…...