Dedication of an interpretive panel which describes the historical significance of the cemetery as the final resting place of American diplomat and educator James Milton Turner who was appointed Minister to Liberia in 1871 by President Ulysses S. Grant. He was the first person born in slavery to serve as a foreign diplomat for the U.S. This site on Sappington Road just south of Big Bend, will now be a stop on the state-wide Civil War driving trail known as the U.S. Grant Trail. Some members of the Round Trail visited the cemetery last year as part of our U.S. Grant tour in St. Louis, MO.

Location Father Dickson Cemetery-Crestwood, MO