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Ten members of one of St. Louis’s most influential families are buried in a historic cemetery in Crestwood, but until last month, the only marker indicating where they lay to.
The south St. Louis County cemetery is named after Moses Dickson, a black abolitionist who is buried there along with prominent political leader James Milton Turner.