St. Peters UCC

  • National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

    On September 27, 2023, the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom announced new listings to their program, and Archer Alexander Burial Site, St. Peter’s Cemetery, St. Louis will be among the 23 new listings joining the over 750 listings nationwide.

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  • A Woman in the Shadow

    A Woman in the Shadow

    Louisa was born around 1810 to a woman enslaved by John McCluer, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian elder in Rockbridge County, Virginia, who was also her father. When McCluer’s daughter Nancy married James Alexander in 1820, Louisa would meet Alexander’s enslaved man named Archer Alexander. Louisa and Archer would marry …

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