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Elm Grove Friends Cemetery

Wayne Township, Henry County, IN

   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.

NameDiedBornOtherGrave #
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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