On Sep 28, 2005, at 4:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > MO-CEMETERIES-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 174 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: Holy Ghost Cem./Pickers [[email protected]] > #2 Re: [MO-CEM] Re: Holy Ghost Cem./P [[email protected]] > #3 Re: St. Louis -Old/New Pickers aka [[email protected]] > #4 Re: [MO-CEM] Re: St. Louis -Old/Ne [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from MO-CEMETERIES-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the MO-CEMETERIES-D list administrator, send mail to > [email protected] > > ______________________________ > > > From: [email protected] > Date: September 27, 2005 9:33:03 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Holy Ghost Cem./Pickers > > > Judy, > > Here is a posting by the: > ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY > PREMIER LIBRARY SOURCES > > Picotte (also called Piggott, Old Picotte, Vickert, Old Picker, German > Evangelical Cemetery; Arsenal between > Louisiana and Compton; 1845-1898) > > Old Old Picker’s Cemetery (Kansas-Wyoming-Louisiana-Arsenal area of > South > St. Louis; area now home to > Roosevelt High School.; Cholera Victims, 1845-1889; removed July > 1916. Established 1845 by the Holy > Ghost Evangelical & Reformed Church. Continued by New Picker’s > Cemetery. > Old Picker’s or Holy Ghost (1894-1901) > Old Picker’s (7133 Gravois Rd.; originally Evangelical and Reformed, > 1851-1893) (see Greenwood) > Old Picotte see Old Picker’s > > New Picker Cemetery Replaced Old Picker’s, at 7133 Gravois Rd 6 miles > from the court house, near the River > Des Peres. It contains about 20 acres and belonged to the > Independent Protestants. Became St. Louis > Memorial Gardens, now Gatewood Gardens. New Picotte (Gravois Rd., > offices 709 Soulard & 1334 S. 7th, > same as New Picker) > > Gatewood Gardens Cemetery (formerly, St. Louis Memorial Gardens & New > Picker) (Administered by St. > Louis Development Corp.) > > Your questions relative to Holy Ghost Cemetery. Several years ago this > was posted on one of the St. Louis Message lists. > > "Call Jason or Denise Phillips, Cemetery Coordinator, at the St. Louis > Development Corporation at (314) 622-3400, ext. 244. Tell her the > names > of the deceased you are looking for in the cemetery. She will kindly > send you a map of the cemetery, copies of the lot owner cards and a > copy > of the information from the original cemetery book. She is getting > the > cemetery fixed up with signs for the various sections and > maintenance to > keep it looking nice. > > "Jason at that office who apparently has taken over the management of > these records. > > "While all of the graves at Holy Ghost Cemetery were moved to what > is now > Gatewood Gardens (after going through the "new" and "old" Picker's > names), some of the records for "single" graves may not have survived. > Whoever did the moving of graves took more care with maintaining > family > plot records than single grave plots. > > Denise Phillips > St. Louis Development Corporation > Suite 1200 > 1015 Locust Street > St. Louis, MO 63101 > Phone: (314) 622-3400, ext. 244 > Fax: (314) 231-2341 and (314) 622-3413 > > There was a tombstone survey done in 1997, your Wilhelms Family is not > listed. Not unusual since less than 60% of burials in any given > cemetery > aren't memorialized with a tombstone. And in the case of Pickers, I > don't > know if they survey party did both cemeteries on Gravois, the > cemetery is > on two different areas. > > Bill > > ______________________________ > > > From: [email protected] > Date: September 27, 2005 9:55:53 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Re: Holy Ghost Cem./Pickers > > > Thanks for the additional info on these cemetery names. I will > update my > web page. It is certainly the most confusing cemetery situation > in my > genealogy. In that confusion it ranks above (below?) Marcus--Old > and New--in St. > Louis. > > I am still trying to find more information on Alexandria Cemetery > in Lincoln > County, MO, northeast of Troy. Latitude 39° 02' N, Longitude > 90° 53' 23" > W, between Cuivre River State Park and Bobs Creek, near Ridge Rd. > > Erven Thoma > http://thoma.ws > [email protected] > > ______________________________ > > > From: [email protected] > Date: September 27, 2005 11:38:43 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: St. Louis -Old/New Pickers aka: Gatewood Memorial Gardens > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AN.2ADE/631.2 > > Message Board Post: > > Becki, > > This Message Board also has a Mailing List gatewayed to it. Check > the Mailing List Archives for answers from the Mailing List > members, who answered on list instead of here. > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/MO-CEMETERIES/2005-09/1126667998 > > Mailing List Archives > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MO-CEMETERIES/2005-09 > > Orlena > > ______________________________ > > > From: [email protected] > Date: September 28, 2005 2:14:24 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MO-CEM] Re: St. Louis -Old/New Pickers aka: Gatewood > Memorial Gardens > > > The name Picker's for the cemetery came from the name of one of the > pastors > at Holy Ghost Church, Frederick Picker, who served 1843-55. I am > still not > clear on the reasons for all the different names and when they were > the official > name. Perhaps the St. Louis Directories would clarify that > question. I > also do not know when the church relinquished the cemeteries and > who the > subsequent owners were until the city took over. > Erven Thoma > > >