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From: Jackie <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] GPS Tools Father Dickson Cemetery in St Louis MO
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:24:02 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <423C2430.B26BAFE7@earthlink.net>
I think I know where that is, I stopped there first
when sombody asked me to take photos of the Sappington
Cemetery. This cemetery is on Sappington Rd, very
close to the Sappington Cemetery. Very old, very
interesting.
Jackie "O"
St. Louis, MO
> Father Dickson Cemetery is at 383357N0902309W:
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.56583&lon=-90.38583&datum=NAD27&s=50&size=l
>
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.56583&lon=-90.38583&datum=NAD27&s=24&size=l
>
> The Father Dickson Cemetery was founded in 1915 and
> named for Father "Moses" Dickson, a black
> abolitionist leader who founded the Knights of
> Liberty. Was one of the first public cemeteries
> available to blacks in the St Louis area. Among
> those buried in the Father Dickson Cemetery is
> James Milton Turner (1840-1915), who led the fight
> for free public education for Missouri blacks;
> organized the Missouri Equal Rights League in
> 1865; campaigned throughout the state for the rights
> of blacks to vote; and served as resident consul
> general to Liberia from 1871 to 1878. Upon
> his return to St. Louis he devoted his life to the
> Freedman's Bureau.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] GPS Tools
> > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:06:37 EST
> > From:
> > To:
> >
> > HI Paul:
> >
> > How would we go about getting Father Dickson
> Cemetery on GPS?
> > Visit our Web site:
> > www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/dickson
> >
> > Ernest Jordan
>
>
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