Kaleidoscope of Winter

Captured at the Meramec River as makes it way to the the Mississippi 1 mile to Governor Daniel Dunklins Grave State Historic Site. Perched on a... more

by Peggy Franz

Title

Kaleidoscope of Winter

Artist

Peggy Franz

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Captured at the Meramec River as makes it way to the the Mississippi 1 mile to Governor Daniel Dunklins Grave State Historic Site. Perched on a bluff above the river at Herculaneum, the grave of Missouris fifth governor provides a quiet place to reflect on Missouri, then and now. In 1843, Dunklin was appointed by Gov. Thomas Reynolds as commissioner to adjust and designate the boundary between Missouri and Arkansas. He held this appointment until his death on July 25, 1844, from pneumonia. He was buried two days later in a field near Maje. In 1851, his wife was buried with him at Maje. Their son, James L. Dunklin, inherited the estate upon the death of his mother. Not as successful in business as his father, James was forced to sell the estate. In 1885, the sale of the estate had one acre reserved on the only part James owned, free and clear. This was to become the present Dunklin Cemetery. Following the sale, Daniel and Emily were exhumed and reinterred in this cemetery.
The Missouri State Park Board agreed on Aug. 25, 1965, to accept the cemetery for the purpose of erecting and maintaining "a memorial park in remembrance of Daniel Dunklin�" This site was the forerunner of the statute enacted in 1967 "to suitably mark every grave of a former governor of this state and to maintain every grave of a former governor within this state which is not within a perpetual care cemetery." The Missouri Department of Natural Resources oversees Dunklin's Grave along with Jewell Cemetery, where Missouri's 22nd governor, Charles Hardin, is buried and Sappington Cemetery, where governors Meredith Miles Marmaduke and Claiborne Fox Jackson are buried.

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March 9th, 2013