City Cemetery – Sublette Cemetery (C15)
This cemetery no longer exists. It was in the area bounded by Macklind, Sublette, and Fyler Streets. St. Louis, Missouri 63139 Lost City Cemetery Burials indexed: 357 (two from 1856 and 7; the rest from 1862 and 63) |
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Click on this image to see the cemetery area georeferenced in a Google Maps interface. Image courtesy of the year 1937 ArcGIS layer from St Louis County GIS Center |
GPS: Latitude: 38.6046591 Longitude: -90.2874251 Click here for a Google map of the approximate location.
City Cemetery-Sublette, also known as Potters Field, was near 59th Street and Scanlon Avenue and was closed in the 1950s when the Hampton Gardens Apartments were constructed to the west. The graves were relocated to Mt. Lebanon Cemetery in St. Ann. Click here to go to Mt. Lebanon Cemetery.
Source of Data for this Cemetery
Data transcribed from the sexton’s records by StLGS volunteers.
Cemetery Specific Data Notes
None.
Additional Resources
“City to Clean Up Potter’s Field,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 18 February 1947.
“History’s Repeating Itself at Potter’s Field,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 14 April, 1950, page 85.
Old Cemeteries, St. Louis County, Missouri, volume 2 (St. Louis Genealogical Society: St. Louis, Missouri, 1983), page 102.
Old Cemeteries, St. Louis County, Missouri, volume 4 (St. Louis Genealogical Society: St. Louis, Missouri, 1987), page 159.
Last modified: 17-Jun-2024 22:36