Sterling Price Obelisk - St. Louis, Missouri
Posted by: Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
N 38° 41.673 W 090° 13.800
15S E 740907 N 4286523
Obelisk marking the grave of CSA Major General Sterling Price, located in Bellefontaine Cemetery in north St. Louis.
Waymark Code: WM31J8
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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Sterling Price was a former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1845-1846 and Governor of Missouri. He is most well known as a General in the Confederate State of America during the Civil War. At the end of the war he took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender to the Union Army.

His obelisk is one of probably hundreds in the large park-like Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Date Created/Placed: 1867 is date of death

Address:
4947 W Florissant Ave,
St. Louis, MO 63115

Height: Estimated 35 feet

Illuminated: no

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