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.

Tag: St. John A.M.E. Church

  • 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…

  • The Hanging of Reverend White

    The Hanging of Reverend White

    In 1838, Samuel Audrain emancipated his enslaved man named Absalom White, a preacher and an abolitionist …