The Trail's Grove Cemetery was the burial grounds for the William Trail family, A former slave who came to Henry county in 1833 after buying 160 acres of land in Greensboro township on 16 Apr 1832. He had four sons who served in the Civil War, two who gave their life to the cause of freedom. The first known burial was that of William Trail Sr. who died in 1858 in his seventy-fourth year of age. The last burial was in 1950 when Leora Trail, William Trail's granddaughter who had requested to be buried in the cemetery upon her death. In her will, executed in April, 1954, Leora Trail stated "It is my will and I hereby direct my executors to pay to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Now known as Tuskegee University.) Tuskegee, Alabama, all of the residue of my estate ($5,408.63) and I charge the Tuskegee Institute to take care of and keep in a respectable condition at all times a certain burial lot known as the "Trail's Graveyard", one-half mile east of the town of Shirley, Indiana. The Tuskegee Institute gladly accepted such a generous offer, but the cemetery has been forgotten about all of these years.

Name	Born	Died	Other Info
Dempsey, Infant	No date	No date	son of John F. & Martha
Dempsey, Ida Alice	17 Oct 1872	11 Jan 1873	3m, 24d
Freeman, Alfred	1845	1865	on stone w/ Mary & Son
Freeman, Mary	1812	1878	Same stone w/Alfred & Son
Freeman, Inf. Son	No date	No date	Same stone w/Mary & Alfred
Johnson, Bennie B,	5y, 9m, 6d	28 Apr 1878	Son of W. & L.
Trail, Barzillai	1835	1917	Mason's stone
Trail, David	31y, 22d	6 Apr 1869	Mason's stone
Trail, Ginerva	29y, 9m, 14d	13 Aug 1890	D. of B. & S. E.
Trail, Joseph	26y, 25d	31 Dec 1868	S. of William & Sarah
Trail, Joseph J.	15y, 7m, 9d	2 Apr 1880	S. of Joseph
Trail, Julia E.	17y, 2m, 14d	16 Nov 1885	D. of B. & S. E.
Trail, Leora	1867	1950	D. of Barzillai & Susan
Trail, Sarah	77y, 5m, 10d	1 Nov 1877	Wife of William
Trail, Susan E.	1834	1905	Wife of Barzillai
Trail, William	74y, 6m	16 Sep 1858	Husband of Sarah