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[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Wainwright Tomb" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1629763652583{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1629763625440{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]In 1891, Ellis Wainwright, a young St. Louis millionaire brewer, commissioned Louis Sullivan to design the tomb for his beautiful young wife. Sullivan had just completed the Wainwright…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Westlake Memorial" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1629811143697{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1629811106748{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]James Louis Westlake (1871-1944) and Nellie Bell Westlake (1872-1951) are interred in this unique tomb. It is the only memorial in Bellefontaine where the sarcophagus is in an…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="James E. Yeatman 1818–1901 Banker & First President of Bellefontaine" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632408498624{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632408519161{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]James Yeatman, a St. Louis banker, served as the first president of Bellefontaine Cemetery. It was he who went to…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="James McIlvaine Riley 1849–1911 Civil Engineer" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632405020085{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632405041972{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]One of three founders of Sigma Nu Fraternity, Riley was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute during the Reconstruction. Along with James Frank…...