Cupples Mausoleum
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Samuel Cupples 1831–1912 Businessman" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632491602434{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632491625571{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]Samuel Cupples (1831-1912) arrived in St. Louis in 1851 and established himself in the woodenware business. Along with his partner, Robert S. Brookings, Cupples later saw…...
Tate Mausoleum
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Tate Mausoleum" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632486402267{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632486421605{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]This Egyptian-style mausoleum was built in 1907 by Frank N. Tate, who at the time controlled most of the theater property in St. Louis. He also owned theaters…...
Edgar Ames
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Edgar Ames 1825–1867 St. Louis Civic Leader" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632491808275{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632491827441{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]Edgar Ames was a St. Louis meat packer, banker and insurance executive with a distinguished civic record. He helped obtain the legislation that…...
The Bagnell Brothers
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="The Bagnell Brothers" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632492151425{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632492175779{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]One of the more unusual memorials in the cemetery is the three-sided obelisk in memory of the Bagnell brothers: William, Robert and Thomas. Natives of Canada, they…...