Beverly Hills Burial Site
On August 8, 1967, Howard Browning discovered the cast iron casket containing human remains during excavation for a septic tank in
the Bevery Hills Addition just south of Muncie. The neighborhood lies on the south side of CR 400S between Walnut Street/Old
SR 3 and SR 3. Howard Browning discovered the cast iron casket. Coroner Marshall Foust estimated the remains to be
70 to 100 years old. Cast iron caskets were popular in the 1850s. No clothing remained but buttons left behind seemed to
indicate that the remains were that of a man. Foust claimed that the area was a plot for a family named
Smith, but no further details were provided. Local resident Harold Burns recalled a cemetery in the area by the name of Clark,
but no records are extant under wither name. There was no indication of a cemetery on the site prior to the discovery.
The remains were retrieved by Meeks Mortuary and buried in the original casket
at Monroe Township expense as intement number 10104 in Beech Grove Cemetery, northeast corner of Block 23, Lot 100, on
August 15 1967.
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