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/WMB.2ACE/4728.1 Message Board Post: Dear Jean, Have you tried the St. Louis Public Library for the city directories from that time period. I know that up here in Detroit, you can find information about the businesses in the business section of the directories-including the names of the officers, etc. I don't know if St. Louis has the same type. I have seen STL directories where they have listed businesses by type. http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/geneinfo.htm You can email your request-see item #13 Maybe if the obit is real old, the only way to show where the funeral was, would be to indicate a post office station which may have been at a railroad??