St. Clair Family

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Submitted by June England Tuck

First printed in the Mt. Vernon Optic Herald reprinted in the Sulphur Springs Gazette Aug. 29, 1913

Mr. T. A. St. Clair has had the remains of his parents, J. S. and Anice St. Clair, his brothers, James and Luther St. Clair, and sister, Mrs. Eliza Harris, taken up from the old Gage graveyard, 12 miles north west of Mt. Vernon, and re-interred in the City (Mt. Vernon) cemetery here; the new graves being marked by handsome new monuments, one massive granite stone for his parents and smaller ones at each of the other three. Uncle Abe selected the lots in the new part of the cemetery, and left one vacant lot for his own resting place. The father died before the civil war, the mother some years later. Mrs. Harris died in 1857. James St. Clair was taken sick at the battle of Elkhorn in 1862 and died seven months later. Luther St. Clair died in 1867. He was fatally cut by a knife in his saddle pocket as he was getting off his horse. James St. Clair and Mrs. Mandy Hedrick of Sulphur Bluff are his children. (The old Gage graveyard is now known as the Mitchell Creek graveyard, no longer buried in.)