Answers to The Bellefontaine Cemetery Quiz
1. For a $500 fee, this legendary steamboat pilot taught Mark Twain how to navigate the Mississippi River.
E. Horace Bixby
2. West Pointer who explored the West and had salt flats in Utah named after him
J. Benjamin Bonneville
3. Founder of the League of Women Voters in 1920
C. Edna Gellhorn
4. First female US Marshall
K. Phoebe Couzins
5. First president of the first chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy
M. Margaret "Mother" McClurey
6. Man who made the rifle that tamed the West and placed it in the hands of such intrepid frontiersmen as Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and Jim Bridger
F. Samuel Hawken
7. Grandfather of T.S. Eliot and founder of Washington University
A. William Greenleaf Eliot
8. Inspiration for W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues"
H. Russell Gardner
9. The lady who was once the highest paid performer in American Vaudeville
G. Della May Fox
10. For 34 years, this man carried in his left arm the bullet that killed Wild Bill Hickok.
B. William Massie
11. The lawyer who praised the dog as "Man's best friend"
I. Senator George Graham Vest
12. Record holder for running up Pike's Peak
D. Joseph Forshaw
13. Ad man who used Tom Mix western fever to sell tons of Hot Ralston Cereal
L. Charles Claggett