St. Peter’s UCC Cemeteery

  • ARCHER ALEXANDER DAY

    ARCHER ALEXANDER DAY

    On September 24, 1863, a St. Louis newspaper announced “Archer Alexander, a negro … whose last master was Richard Hickman Pitman of the County of St. Charles…is hereby declared to be an emancipated slave and a free man!

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  • Telling the story…

    Telling the story…

    After many discussions, reviews, and thought, Abraham Mohler’s design for a new Memorial at St. Peter’s United Church of Christ Cemetery on Lucas and Hunt in St. Louis, will bring life to this American icon for Emancipation. Rejoicing in his glory of freedom, having left his enslaved life behind, he is truly rising, asking others…

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  • September events

    September events

    Come hear the story of Archer Alexander’s dangerous route to freedom on the Underground Railroad or join us at his Jubilee…

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  • ST. PETER’S U.C.C. CEMETERY

    Over five years ago Bill Baumgartner, Superintendent of the St. Peter’s U.C.C. Cemetery located at 2101 Lucas and Hunt Avenue, in Normandy (St. Louis County) located the record that established that Archer Alexander is buried at St. Peters U.C.C. Cemetery in an unmarked gravesite. Read more…

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  • MUHAMMAD ALI’S GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER

    Archer Alexander is the great-great-great grandfather of Muhammad Ali.

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