Koch Tubercular Hospital Cemetery in Mehlville, Missouri

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Get directions Koch Road, south of Interstate 55
Mehlville, Missouri 63129 United States

Coordinates: 38.48270, -90.28555
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Cemetery was located on Koch Road south of present-day Interstate 55. The cemetery buried cases from the Robert Koch Tubercular Hospital that had been operated by the City of St. Louis from the late 19th Century until the 1960's. When the hospital was closed, the cemetery fell into neglect, with most of the graves always being unmarked (they were graves of tuberculosis victims who were buried generally within 24 hours of death there).

The Oakville-Mehlville Historical Society had expressed interest in getting a collective memorial stone on the site, which is noted on St. Louis County plot maps and cannot be developed according to local historians.

No burials had been made in the cemetery since the 1940's,and the site is now conventionally grass-cut without anyother maintenance.(Presently, the cemetery is unmarked).

Two miles north of Koch Cemetery and Hospital was the MOUNT SAINT ROSE Catholic Tubercular Hospital, which is now the headquarters site for the Hancock School District.

Tubercular casualties from there who were unclaimed were generally buried in the Old SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery nearby on Gravois and Loughborough Avenues.
That hospital was closed in the 1970's.