This old pioneer cemetery, located in Prairie Township section # 27 in the northern part of the county on county road #950 north. Was first started by Joseph and Susan Hazelton as a neighborhood burial ground sometime in the mid 1830s. On 5 Jan 1850 Joseph and Susan Hazelton deeded to Elisha Hartley, Russell Williams and Lafora Hale, school district #1 trustees, the land for the burial ground to be known as "Hazelton's Burial Ground" and on 29 Aug 1854, Hugh Hazelton sold the land for $10.00 to Joseph Hazelton, George W. Evans, Lafery Hale, Elisha Hartley and Abraham Fulton, trustees of the church know as the Luray Protestant Methodist for use as a burial grounds to be known as the Beech Grove cemetery. On 11 Sep 1915, church trustees C. B. McKinney, T. C. Robe and J. W. Shriver deeded the cemetery over to the care of civil township trustee C. C. Cory The first marked burial here was for 4-month old infant Abraham Hartley, son of Elisha & Sarah Hartley. The last recorded burial was that of Retta M. Peckinpaugh who died in September of 1949. The cemetery is in fairly good condition and is mowed often and well maintained considering there hasn't been a burial here in over fifty odd years. The township trustee is now the caretaker of this cemetery. The Beech Grove cemetery was first recorded in 1973 by Thomas Hamm and the New Castle Parkview Junior High School History Club. Those recordings are on file at the Henry County Historical Society Museum.