\"OLD BURYING GROUND: Here are buried early settlers founders of the churches Des Peres who came to St. Louis from the eastern states- Kentucky, Tennessee, the Virginias, Carolina, New England... 1815\"\n\n\"SLAVE BURIALS: In the southeast corner of the cemetery are buried men, women and children forced to live in this land as slaves. Their graves were never marked. A stone has been set in their memory in the year of our lord 1983.\" \nfrom a sign posted on the cemetery property.\n\nhttp://www.faithdesperes.org/census-and-history/