This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Nannerlh Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.stlouis/9860.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I've also been doing research on this - I just moved into the area and I live close to St. James Lutheran Church on Hanley, in University City. The abandoned church fascinates me and I was wondering if there had been a cemetary. The old Wesleyan might have been a possibility, as it would have been less than 1/4 mile away. The Wesleyan Cemetary was on the southeast corner of what is now Hanley/Olive. There is a grocery store on the site called "Pete's Shur Save" - on a side note, many of the employees at this store are extremely rude and crabby; wonder if working atop an old burial ground has anything to do with it? YIKES! LOL! The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune: 05/22/1952 "Peer Into Caskets at Bodies Preserved Nearly 100 Years" St. Louis, May 22 (UP) - An old cemetary has yielded up a number of bodies preserved for nearly a century in cast iron caskets. About 30 of the iron caskets, with windows of heavy glass through which faces can be seen have been found in the removal of several thousand bodies from the Wesleyan Cemetery in suburban University City, to a new site. In one of them was a child, dead for 97 years, her blonde hair still perfectly parted and the face marred only by a few puckers. In another was a middle-aged man with a Van Dyke beard, his waxed moustache still precisely arched. The removal of the bodies to Memorial Park Cemetary in Normandy, was undertaken (oh dear - was this a bad choice of wording, or what???) by the Wesleyan Cemetary Association, which is without funds for perpetucal care of the old cemetary. (NewspaperArchive.com) I hope this information helps. Nancy Jefferson City Post-Tribune: 11/25/52 "Huge Shopping Center Proposed for Suburb" St. Louis UP - A huge shopping center to be constructed at a cost of more than three million dollars, was proposed last night before the suburban University City council. The center, to include 24 shops, a supermarket, business offices and off-street parking facilities for 425 cars, would be constructed on a 9 1/2 acre tract formerly occupied by the old Wesleyan Cemetary. (the above from NewspaperArchive.com) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.