Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

Notable interments

• Medal of Honor recipients
• * Major Ralph Cheli, for heroism while leading a bombing mission in World War II.
• * Donald D. Pucket, pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces, for action World War II
• Other notable individuals
• * First Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie, previously interred as the "Vietnam unknown soldier" at the Tomb of the Unknowns, re-interred here after DNA testing positively identified his remains
• * Jack Buck, former St. Louis Cardinals baseball announcer
• * Peter J. Cook, the last Spanish–American War Veteran to die.
• * Franklin Gritts, Cherokee artist and art director of the Sporting News
• * Johnnie Johnson, pioneering rock musician
• * Walter Mayberry - college football player who died in a Japanese POW camp
• * Robert McFerrin Sr., Opera singer
• * Henry Townsend, Musician
• * Three veterans of the American Revolution buried in the Old Post Section:
• ** Private Richard Gentry, veteran of the Revolutionary and the Indian Wars. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
• ** Major Russell Bissell, veteran of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars.
• ** Colonel Thomas Hunt, a "Minuteman" at the Battle of Concord, April 1775. During the revolution he was wounded at the Battle of Stony Point and Siege of Yorktown. He was also a veteran of the Indian Wars and commanded the 1st Infantry Regiment.
• Other burials of note
• *Mass grave of sixty-one merchant marines and sailors who died in the fire aboard the on August 19, 1943.
• *Mass grave for 123 of the 139 victims of the Palawan Massacre
• * Remains of 5 crewmen from B-36 Bomber 075 lost on the coast of British Columbia, Canada while conducting a training mission on February 13, 1950

  Memorial to the Confederate Dead