Lemp Family Mausoleum - Bellefontaine Cemetery - St. Louis, Missouri
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N 38° 41.387 W 090° 13.485
15S E 741380 N 4286007
Mausoleum for brewery family which was had great wealth and suffered great tragedy. The mausoleum is the largest in this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM5KJG
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 01/18/2009
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The Lemp family story is one of great fortune and great tragedy. The Lemp family fortune was made in the late 1800's and early 1900's family owned Lemp brewery. The brewery was one of the largest in the country. The family's tragedies began with the death of Frederick Lemp in 1901 at the age of only 28. He was his father's favorite son and was being groomed to take over the operations of the company. The father William Sr. never fully recovered from his son death and committed suicide in 1904. The business was then taken over by William Jr. William Jr. along with this wife Lillian known as the "Lavender Lady" had a proclivity of spending the family's fortune. The brewery business declined during World War I and reached its demise during prohibition. The next tragedy to strike the family was the suicide of William Jr.s sister Elsa Lemp Wright in 1920, she also shot herself in the mansion. William Jr next committed suicide in 1922. The last of the Lemp family to commit suicide in the mansion was William Jr. brother Charles in 1949. The only surviving brother Edwin left the family business in 1913 and moved to an estate in Kirkwood and lived to an old age of 90 years. There are no members of the Lemp family remaining.
The mausoleum is the largest in Belefontaine Cemetery.
History:
"Granite. Bellefontaine’s largest
family mausoleum. Greek Revival
pediment supported by paired Tuscan
columns. Paired bronze doors with
multi-paned lights set within Greek
Revival scored surround. Scored
walls and copper modillions in
cornice." ~ Bellefontaine Cemetery
Visiting Hours/Restrictions:
8 a.m. - 5 p.m. - 365 days a year.
Address:
Bellefontaine Cemetery
4947 W. Florissant Ave.
St. Louis, Missouri
Website: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
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