We looked at the Friedens Church in Hyde Park yesterday, and now we move out to the associated cemetery just outside the City of St. Louis on North Broadway, or Bellefontaine Road. The burial records seem to be located at a very simple website located here.
Judging from angry on-line reviews, service has declined at the cemetery, and on the day we first visited it, we were surprised to discover when we left that we had visited well past the posted gate hours. Apparently no one cares about getting around to closing the cemetery on time anymore.
Like its church down the road in Hyde Park, time seems to have passed this cemetery by. I worry about these cemeteries in what is now an increasingly rough neighborhood; who is keeping vigil?
