Originally buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery located in Baden, Missouri at the corner of Bittner and Switzer Avenues from about 1849 until the 1960s. William’s remains located in Mary Long lot, his wife. Remains moved to Lake Charles Cemetery 1924. The cemetery fell out of regular use after about 1920 and became over grown with weeds and had many gravestones toppled over. Due to the lack of endowment funds to care for this cemetery, the church removed all the graves. Most were moved to its new and larger cemetery at 9650 Bellefontaine Road in St. Louis County. (This county cemetery is non-sectarian.) The Baden cemetery property was then sold and there was talk of creating a park on this 5-acre lot. However, as of 2004, it is still undeveloped. The Records of Interment for the Baden cemetery were thought to have burned in a fire. Thus, when the graves from the old cemetery in Baden were removed, not all the remains could be identified. The unidentified remains were removed to the new cemetery and buried in a common plot.
Originally buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery located in Baden, Missouri at the corner of Bittner and Switzer Avenues from about 1849 until the 1960s. William’s remains located in Mary Long lot, his wife. Remains moved to Lake Charles Cemetery 1924. The cemetery fell out of regular use after about 1920 and became over grown with weeds and had many gravestones toppled over. Due to the lack of endowment funds to care for this cemetery, the church removed all the graves. Most were moved to its new and larger cemetery at 9650 Bellefontaine Road in St. Louis County. (This county cemetery is non-sectarian.) The Baden cemetery property was then sold and there was talk of creating a park on this 5-acre lot. However, as of 2004, it is still undeveloped. The Records of Interment for the Baden cemetery were thought to have burned in a fire. Thus, when the graves from the old cemetery in Baden were removed, not all the remains could be identified. The unidentified remains were removed to the new cemetery and buried in a common plot.
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