ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

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History happens. All stories, especially the difficult ones, need to be heard. Award winning author, a public historian, professional genealogist, and International speaker. Member of the Missouri Speakers Bureau and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

Category: African American History

  • The people on the hill

    The people on the hill

    on his land was a road that led from his plantation house up into town to the Railroad tracks, just east of the station. On that road, his enslaved had lived for generations, which was how it had earned its name. The 1930 Census taker would refer to it as …..

  • Sage Chapel A.M.E. Church

    Sage Chapel A.M.E. Church

    Members of the St. Charles African American community met with members of the African Methodist Episcopal Conference in St. Louis Conference on October 18, 1865, and subsequently founded the St. Charles Conference, which included the St. John’s AME in St. Charles, then Sage Chapel on what is today’s Sonderen, then Grant Chapel AME in Wentzville…

  • How Sage Chapel Cemetery began…

    How Sage Chapel Cemetery began…

    Keithly was one of the largest slave owners in St. Charles County according to the U.S. Slave Schedules of 1850 and 1860. Among those who he enslaved were John Rafferty and his sisters Ludy, Elsie and Lizzie according to Mary Stephenson.