Buried at Smith Chapel A.M.E. Cemetery in Foristell is Smith Ball, one of the nine Trustees who helped start the A.M.E. church in 1871. On Sunday, February 28, 1864, thirty-one-year-old Smith Ball had made his way from one end of St. Charles County to the other, a distance of about 25 miles, to reach freedom.Continue reading “Smith Ball”
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