Ben DeBar

[2] Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, he moved St. Louis, but retained ownership of the St. Charles Theater in New Orleans until 1876.

[10][11][12] In 1878, a statue of Shakespeare was dedicated in Tower Grove Park, St. Louis; on the east face of the monument base is a depiction of DeBar as Falstaff.

Mary Conduit DeBar died of consumption October 29, 1841, aboard the steamboat Maid of Kentucky on the Mississippi River, near Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 140 miles (225 km) south of St. Louis.

DeBar again married in 1843 to Henrietta Emma Adalaide Vallée (1828–1894), who died at the Edwin Forrest House in Philadelphia.

[16] Ben DeBar was known in St. Louis as a Southern sympathizer ("At the outbreak of the war he was several times admonished by the Provost Marshals for pandering to rebel tastes on the stage of his Theater"), but the investigation into the assassination concluded that as the war was drawing to a close, he had modified his sympathies to protect his pecuniary interests.