Located in section #23 on Mill road at its intersection with CR #750S in Wayne Township, Henry County, IN. Henry Ballenger deeded this old cemetery on 22 June 1836 to Elm Grove Friends church trustees William Edwards, Samuel Pritchard and William Macy for the use of the church as a house of worship and a burial grounds for use of its members. The church was in service until about 1882. In later years the church was across the road and a little southeast of the cemetery. At one time the area was known as the "Elm Grove Neighborhood" because the grove of elm trees in the area. Some of the early pioneers who lived in the area at the time were; The Byrkit's, Macy's, Heaton's, Hiatt's, Edwards and Parkhurst's, all early pioneer Quakers.
The cemetery is mowed and maintained by the Wayne township trustee, but many of the stones are down and/or missing and are piled in the middle of the cemetery and along the fence rows.
R. Thomas Mayhill of Knightstown recorded this list of burials in the 1960s, IN, with a couple of additions by the author of this article.
Name | Died | Born | Other | Grave #
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Anderson, Susan | 13 May 1853 | 18y, 10m, 6d | | 21
| Bales, Minerva | 27 Jul 1837 | 2y, 2m, 19d | D of JH & Ann | 32
| Ballenger, Elizabeth | 10 Jan 1856 | 33y, 3m, 10d | W of Henry | 48
| Ballenger, Henry | | | | *
| Bundy, Morris F. | 6 Jul 1858 | 1y, 3m, 4d | S of JM & EJ | 12
| Butler, Emily A. | 21 Dec 1857 | 16y, 6m, 5d | | 36
| Butler, Joseph E. | 2 Oct 1843 | 10 Feb 1810 | | 34
| Butler, Robert B. | 24 Sep 1857 | 15 Nov 1807 | | 31
| Byrket, Andrew | 15 Dec 1869 | 72y, 4m, 7d | H of Susan | 8
| Byrket, Susan | 11 Feb 1855 | 60y, 8m, 18d | W of Andrew | 9
| Byrkit, Andrew | 27 Aug 1855 | 36y, 10m, 15d | | 61
| Byrkit, Cornelius F. | 12 Nov 1855 | 1 Apr 1822 | | 13
| Byrkit, Eve | 14 Mar 1881 | 81y | W of Jacob | 50
| Byrkit, Jacob | 13 Jan 1852 | 54y | Consort of Eve | 51
| Byrkit, Mary A. | 6 Aug 1855 | 1y, 11m, 28d | | 10
| Byrkit, Rosanna | 11 May 1853 | 23y, 3m, 18d | Near Cornelius | 14
| Byrkit, Solomon | | | | *
| Byrkit, Susanna | 19 Oct 1858 | 89y | W of David | 6
| Byrkitt, Isiah | | | Co. F 84th Ind. Inf. | 3
| Byrkitt, Jacob | | | Co. F 84th Ind. Inf. | 2
| Carmichael, Martha H. | N/A | N/A | | 7
| Chew, William W. | 3 Nov 1860 | 13y, 10m, 15d | S of J & D | 38
| Coon, Edmond | 12 Nov 1861 | 12y, 7m, 22d | S of M & E | 23
| Coon, Elizabeth | 24 Oct 1856 | 39y, 10m, 24d | W of Mark | 22
| Coon, Emerson B. | 16 Sep 1881 | 12 Apr 1859 | | 25
| Coon, Mark | 2 Aug 1888 | 13 Dec 1809 | | 20
| Coon, Susan | 27 Mar 1870 | 40y, 7m, 26d | W of M | 24
| Davis, Infant | 28 Dec 1858 | 8m, 25d | S of J & M | 57
| Davis, John | 18 Dec1864 | 72y, 4m, 25d | | 47
| Davis, Susannah | 14 Jul 1868 | 85y | | 41
| Gause, Nathan | 8 Feb1855 | 76y, 8m, 1d | | 56
| Horney, John C. F. | 1864 | 5m | S of J & M | 4
| Jackson, Sarah C. | 28 Mar 1862 | 1y, 4m, 11d | D of S & A | 19
| Jessup, Catherine | 10 Jan 1845 | 17y, 11m, 27d | | 53
| Jessup, Elina C. | 9 Dec 1864 | 15y, 11m, 3d | | 45
| Jessup, Lizzie C. | 24 Jan 1859 | 25y 5m, 3d | | 5
| Jessup, Lucinda J. | 25 Jul 1857 | 26y, 2m, 14d | | 40
| Jessup, Lydia | 2 Oct 1875 | 66y, 25d | W of Tydemon | 42
| Jessup, Tydemon | 24 Apr 1866 | 65y, 6m, 27d | | 43
| Kerns, Delphina J. | 2 Jun 1873 | 19y, 8m, 8d | D of T & M | 58
| Macy, G. B. | | | 19th Ind. Arty. Bat. | 46
| Macy, Rebecca | 15 Mar 1850 | 2 Jul 1819 | W of Benedict | 52
| McNew, A. W. | 16 Mar 1879 | 48y, 10m, 22d | | 1
| McNew, Ellsworth | 23 Oct 1865 | 2y, 9m, 13d | S of A & ME | 60
| McNew, Phebe A. | 26 Oct 1865 | 20y, 6m, 29d | W of JH | 59
| Mitchell, Elizabeth | 9 Jul 1840 | 12d | D of J & PE | 15
| Mitchell, Prudence | 27 Jun 1840 | 1d | D of J & PE | 16
| Montgomery, Joseph | 8 Jan 1862 | 20y, 11m, 19d | | 39
| Nixon, Rhoda | 11 Sep 1841 | 51y, 5m, 9d | W of Samuel N. | 33
| Pennington, Anna | 7 Aug 1860 | 10m, 3d | D of AE & MA | 30
| Pennington, Deborah | 3 Nov 1870 | 88y | | 55
| Pennington, Henry | 17 Nov 1863 | 2m | S of AE & MA | 29
| Pennington, Josiah | 1851 | 72y | | 54
| Pennington, Lizzie | 24 Oct 1862 | 1y, 3m,18d | D of AE & MA | 28
| Pennington, Mary A. | 21 Mar 1868 | 27y, 3m, 15d | W of AE | 26
| Porter, Infant | 3 Aug 1865 | | D of SC & E | 49
| Reece, Priscilla | 19 Jan 1866 | 27y, 1m, 1d | W of AR | 44
| Rose, Emry | 3 Jun 1845 | 7y, 2m, 12d | S of E & S | 17
| Taylor, Elizabeth | 21 Aug 1854 | 11 May 1836 | | 18
| Yetter, Henry | 6 Apr 1868 | 22y, 10m, 3d | | 27
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