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.

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  • Sage Chapel Cemetery on the National Register

    Sage Chapel Cemetery on the National Register

    Please join us on Tuesday evening, August 5th, 2025 at 6 p.m. at the O’Fallon Historic Preservation Commission’s meeting in the O’Fallon Municipal Center (City Hall) at 100 Main Street. We will be presenting the Historic Preservation Commission of O’Fallon with a brass plaque that designates Sage Chapel Cemetery is a National Landmark.

  • Edwards Family

    Edwards Family

    Four generations, left to right:  Mishey Edwards, Mrs. Mary Stephenson, Dorothy Edwards.  Mary Stephenson is holding her oldest child, Margaret, and the little boy in front is Albert, her sister’s son. Photo from the O’Fallon Missouri Historical Society – Mary Stephenson Collection.

  • 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.