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which includes measurements and maintenance with several blueprints; deed to lot of Herman H.
Greife in St. Peters Graveyard, 1898; booklet of the rules and regulations of the Fee Fee
Cemetery, 1877; map of Calvary Cemetery engraved from original map by M.P. Brazill, 1888;
deed of lot to Jennie P. Long, Fee Fee Cemetery, December 29, 1911; booklets of the Fee Fee
Cemetery Association, Pattonville, Missouri, 1914 and 1924; booklet of rules for Calvary
Cemetery, 1920; correspondence regarding investment reports, etc. of Bellefontaine Cemetery,
1964; and undated historical tour booklet of Calvary Cemetery.
Cite as: Cemeteries Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0254
Census collection, 1732-1980. 3 folders (20 items); 1 flat storage box; 67 volumes; 3 oversize
folders
Collection consists of assorted materials, acquired from a variety of sources, that relate to
censuses in St. Louis and Missouri. Includes the following: typescript of census of Ste.
Genevieve, 1752; photocopy of census of Ste. Genevieve District, October 18, 1818; typescript
of St. Louis County and its districts, 1791; facsimile of census of Upper Louisiana signed by
Antoine Soulard and Delassus, December 31, 1800; list of 52 land holders in Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, 1800; census of Cape Girardeau, November 1, 1803; typescript of statistical census of
New Madrid listing inhabitants, slaves, stock and harvests, 1797; census of Cape Girardeau
listing men and women, slaves, wheat, corn, tobacco, linen, wool, cotton, sugar, horned animals
and horses, November 1, 1803; New Madrid census with recapitulation, 1803; a printed record of
aggregate census data for Missouri, 1848; and U.S. census forms and statistical reports by the
Bureau of the Census, 1980. As separately housed bound volumes, this collection contains
territorial census records consisting of the census and general recapitulation of the census of the
Illinois Country, 1732, with aggregate data from Prairie du Rocher/Fort de Chartres, Kaskaskia,
Cahokia, and the concession of M. Renault; a general census of the towns of St. Louis and Ste.
Genevieve, 1787, and a census of St. Louis and its Districts, 1791, both certified as true and
exact copies from the Archivo Nacional, Havana, 1905; second copy of the general census of the
towns of St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve, 1787, with index A-P, a tax list for St. Louis, 1805, and
the article "Voyage dans L'Amerique Septentrionale par Feu le General Collot," with a
translation by Mrs. Max Meyer. Separately housed bound local and state census records include
a census of St. Louis County for 1840 (a photocopy of this census with a name index is available
in the library—Dennis Northcott, compiler, 1840 Missouri State Census of St. Louis County [call
number: Reading Room/MO/9.10/Sa2Lc]; this census is also indexed in the Missouri History
Museum Genealogy and Local History Index); a census of St. Louis City for 1845 (a photocopy
of this census with a name index is available in the library—Dennis Northcott, compiler, 1845
Census of the City of St. Louis (Partial) [call number: Reading Room/St.L./929.3/C396]; this
census is also indexed in the Missouri History Museum Genealogy and Local History Index);
and Missouri state census books includes an aggregate census record for 1844, consisting of
aggregate data by township. This collection also includes a publication titled Statistics of the
United States of America as Collected and Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial
Districts under the Thirteenth Section of the Act for Taking the Sixth Census (Washington: Blair
and Rives, 1841), containing published aggregate data; federal census mortality schedules for the
state of Missouri for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880, arranged alphabetically by counties; and
federal agricultural and industrial census records for the state of Missouri for 1850, 1860, 1870,
and 1880, also arranged alphabetically by county. Some copies of originals held elsewhere.
Some Spanish and French.
Cite as: Census Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.