Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties in the Missouri Territory after the US made the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer stationed 1704–1720 at Kaskaskia in the Illinois Country of New France. In 1733 he founded a trading post on the Mississ...
This project is for those buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The cemetery was founded in 1903 Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on 2315 Highway 61 North, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on East Monroe Street, Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Find a Grave
Fairmount Cemetery was established in or about 1882, by the City of Cape Girardeau and was known as City or New City Cemetery prior to around 1917. It is often mistaken as a catholic cemetery due to its proximity to its location by the former Notre Dame High School. There are approximately 9,508 grave spaces in the cemetery. This has been separated into twelve (12) areas. These areas are secti...
Russell Heights Cemetery, established in 1917, is located on 435 South Farmington Road, in Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in Apple Creek Cemetery, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Find a Grave USGW Archives
Wikipedia Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) , is a public, accredited university located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, near the banks of the Mississippi River. The institution, having started as a normal school, has a traditional strength in teacher education. The recent addition of the River Campus, housing the Holland School of Visual and Performing Arts, has increased ...