Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
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Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, operated by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Founded in 1854, it is the second oldest cemetery in the archdiocese. The cemetery contains 47
Dred Scott's grave in Calvary Cemetery
Tennessee Williams' grave
Tennessee Williams
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Thomas Lanier Williams III, known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among th
Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
…The cemetery contains 470 acres (1.9 km2) of land and more than 300,000 graves, including those of General William Tecumseh Sherman, Dred Scott, Tennessee Williams, Kate Chopin, Louis Chauvin and Auguste Chouteau. In 1849 a cholera epidemic struck St. Louis and claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people. This…
Williams in 1965
Williams at age 5 (1916) in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Childhood Home in Columbus, Mississippi
Williams arriving at funeral services for Dylan Thomas in 1953