Laurel Hill Cemetery includes members of several prominent Weston families. Martin Richard Waggoner arrived in Weston in 1898, opened a jewelry store, later managed Kelly’s at the St. George Hotel, married Emma Quinley, and became mayor in 1921, serving twelve years while promoting the city and beginning the first Tobacco Show, which continued into the 1950s. Emma supported his efforts, and after his death on Christmas 1937 she remained a widow until her death on December 23, 1979. Frank Kelly, born in 1862, bought the St. George Hotel with George Baker in 1899, renamed its saloon Kelly’s Bar, became known for his dog Bennie, accidentally shot and killed his wife Josie in 1906 after mistaking her for an intruder, was never convicted of wrongdoing, and died of diphtheria in 1917. Bartholomew John "BJ" Bless, Sr., editor of The Weston Chronicle from 1886 to 1917, married Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" How, divorced after he took a mistress, later remarried Lizzie, and after the mistress became ill, he and Lizzie brought her into their home and cared for her until her death; BJ died in 1943 and Lizzie four months later. Rudolph O. "R.O." Shenkner, born in Züruck, Switzerland, in 1851, immigrated to Weston with his widowed mother Anna Benz, established a dry goods store, the Shenkner Opera House, and a reading room, and became one of Weston’s most successful early businessmen; his son Jacquemin "Jack" Shenkner served in the army, attended business college, sold insurance, served briefly as secretary to a Missouri congressman, and with his wife Rita Belle Ross managed family farms and real estate, while Rita was known locally as a baker. William Ohlhausen, born in Platte County, was a steamboat engineer who operated the Weston Mill for 35 years; he and his wife Harriet Johnston had four sons, and their grandson Martin Monroe "Micky" Ohlhausen and his wife Ruth Schaback raised a family in a Spring Street home that had hosted abolitionist minister Frederick Starr before the Civil War, while Ruth and Rita Shenkner were noted for making wedding cakes for Weston brides.