Title: Zeb Leavenworth

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Rank：none Score：220 Posts：220 From：USA Register：11/11/2008 8:17 AM	Date Posted：02/17/2009 7:10 AMCopy HTML   Zebulon Leavenworth (1830-1877).  His grave is facing the Mississippi River, on Mausoleum Ave.  Its location is appropriate for steamboats were the life of the Leavenworth family. Zebulon Leavenworth was a pilot and friend of Samuel Clemens.  On the John J. Roe, in the summer of 1857, Sam was the cub pilot and Zeb and Beck Jolly were the co-pilots.  The Captain was Mark Leavenworth, Zeb's brother.  The Leavenworth brothers were very large men, "hospitable and good-natured, which is the way of giants." Zeb was also a co-pilot with Isaac Chauncey Cable on the New Falls City with Clemens as the cub pilot. The last time that Sam Clemens was on a steamboat with Zeb Leavenworth, he was traveling as a pass- enger. Sam had been a licensed pilot on the Alonzo Child when the Civil War began.  The Southern sympathizing captain of the Alonzo Child refused to return to St. Louis from New Orleans with his steamboat. A stranded and confused Sam Clemens, unsure as to his loyalties in the upcoming war, chose to come home. He took passage on May 14 aboard the Nebraska which was piloted by Zeb Leavenworth.  It arrived May 21; the last steamboat to gain free passage to the Upper Mississippi through the Union blockade at Memphis. Commercial traffic to the South had ceased and the two-year career of Samuel Clemens as a licensed pilot was over. Entombed in the Leavenworth mausoleum and the ages at their death: Mark Leavenworth--age 40 John M. Leavenworth--age 38 Zebulon Leavenworth--age 46 Zeb died in 1877 of paralysis.  He was the last of the Leavenworth brothers. The remains of James A. H. Lampton, Sam Clemens' uncle, were in the Leavenworth mausoleum until removed to a lot purchased by his wife, Ella. Isaac H. Jones aslo had the remains of Richard Irwin Jones removed from the Leavenworth mausoleaum to his lot.  Isaac Jones was the captain of the J. C. Swon and Sam Clemens was the pilot from June 25 to July 28, 1859. ***Mark Leavenworth and his brother-in-law, Samuel Pepper, left the river in June 1864 to form the St. Louis banking firm of Gaylord, Leavenworth and Co. The Missouri Democrat characterized them as "well and favorably known steamboatmen." There were also several members of Isaac Chauncey Cable's family that were engaged in the steamboat business.  Their family mausoleaum is six mausoleums west of the Leavenworth mausoleum.  He has no marker but there is a tombstone for Captain Cable's wife. The Alonzo Child was converted into the Confederate ironclad warship, Arkansas.  Its exploits against the Union fleet on the Mississippi River are legend.  A detailed account of the Arkansas' encounters at Vicks- burg July 12, 1862 can be found in the third volume of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. The builder of the Arkansas was St. Louisan, Primus Emerson.  He was the owner of the Carondelet Marine Railway and Dock Company which was located at the mouth of the River des Peres.  Emerson left St. Louis during the Civil War to build warships for the Confederate Navy.  He died in St. Louis in 1877 and is interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery. The Samuel Pepper family lived next to the Leaven- worths on Chestnut Street, one block from the Moffets. Samuel Pepper was a clerk aboard the John J. Roe during Clemens cub-piloting days.  His brothers-in-law were Zeb, John and Mark Leavenworth. The first entombment in the mausoleum of the Leavenworth-Pepper families was in 1853. All that remains of the tomb is the "Leavenworth" step on a hillside. The image used on this page is from my own personal collection.  The information that I have on this page was compiled through genealogy research and some information was taken from resources through the Bellefontaine Cemetery records.
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