Craves, Caves, & Graves

 Isn't it amazing that you can just stumble across the oldest graveyard in St Louis County by accident? If I hadn't driven up and down Conway Road about 10 times trying to find the Old Bonhomme Stone Church STL250 Cake, I never would have noticed that little marker at the entrance to a very narrow and pitted driveway leading up to a tiny cemetery with a one lone picnic table. Conway Cemetery is the family graveyard of the Joseph Conway family, one of the founding families of the Chesterfield area. If you visit the Old Stone Church down the road, you will see his name as one of the founding members of the church. The Conway family moved from Kentucky to Missouri with Daniel Boone's family. Interesting fact about Joseph Conway: He actually survived a scalping at age 14, and later was a sort of Indian prisoner of war . He went on to fight in the Revolutionary War and helped clear the Illinois territory of Native Americans so it could be opened for westward exp...