1879 Burials
The City of the Dead

List of Interments at Beech Grove Cemetery During the Year 1879

INTERMENT NAME OF DECEASEDAGE INTERMENT NAME OF DECEASEDAGE
January 2Susan Compton72y 28 days " 26Florence May DobsonInfant
" 7Bessie Maddy3y 7 " " 29Harriett L Beardsley5 years
" 10Menerva E Dick3 months August 2Rebecca Smell72 years
" 10Ezra Dick2y 9 mo " 2William Dooley1y 5mo
" 10Bertha M Snyder2y 11 mo " 2E Allie Rich1y
" 13Daniel McBurcoy49 years " 3T Bell White1y 5m0 7d
" 14Daisy Fohner  " 6Ethel W LitkeyInfant
" 16S Q BradyInfant " 6Athe Gelispie19y 4mo 26d
" 28Willie Crouch17y 11days " 9Daniel Medsker27y 5mo
" 28Mary Wilcoxon26y 3m 9d " 9Anna E Shroyer9 m 27 days
Feb'ry 3John W Kennedy29y 7mo 29d " 14Mary Agnes Griffin2y 5 days
" 12Lovie Young3y 2 days " 15 B Amelia Gass1y 9m 5 days
" 17Louie  " 16Thomas Kirby74y 8m 10d
March 2R J Hall43y 7 months " 20Inft of D W Cray 
" 3DaughterInfant " 24Henry Burns26y 5 days
" 9Susan Helvie51y 19 days " 30Inft of Mary Eiler 
" 21Charles Howard49 years Sept 3John O'Neil3 years
" 23James Kelley45 years " 5Elmira Pretzman 
" 27Mrs Jane Gilbert75y 8m 16d " 7Nancy Eber65 year
" 30Marinda Kegrice38y 5m 8d " 11G W McElfreshInfant
" 31Eva Ingman27y 5m 11d " 18Thomas Rich3 years
" 31Theobold Mutch56y 8m " 24Mary E Newcomb17y 7m 9d
April 1Lincoln H Haines19y 3m " 26Ada Hutchinson17y 5m 15d
" 3Eliza Gilbert48 years Oct 4Pearl CalvertInfant
" 7Sarah J Everett71 years " 5Mrs J Hines64 years
" 7Infant Charles Wachtell  " 16John DeCamp54 years
" 8Richard WattsInfant " 21Mary M Ferguson28y 8m 5d
" 13Eva Moore30 years " 21Lewis S Smith54y 8 months
" 13Cynthia A Fleming45y 1m 8d " 26Infant of Henry Harrington 
" 17Mary Bloom19y 11m 21d " 29Eva McCormick3 years
" 20Electa Huffer43y 4m 18d Nov 5Infant of William Riley 
" 22Sarah L Jackson46 years " 29Infant of Peter Bandy 
" 28Julia A Thompson17y 8m 4d Dec 5Infant of A L Nelson 
May 20Louisa Conklin23y 10m " 9Infant R W Stradling 
" 25Jacob Peterman86 years " 9Nancy A Jones60y 5m 24d
" 25Bessie Madill  " 10Michael Collins52 years
June 17Della Leager9y 9m " 13Chas H Sutton11y 8m 8d
" 19Margaret Harris46 years " 14Infant Joseph Heirich 
" 25Minnie Mock3y 11m 27d " 15Ruthy Ann Reed20 years 4m
" 30Tona Brantigam 15y 6m 7d "24James R Nyce21y 11m 10d
July 13Robert AndrewsInfant " 26Edward Booker61y 2m 21d
" 15Inft of Frant Corhen    
The Muncie (Indiana) Daily Time
January 7, 1889
Conflicting information

Athe Gelispie is Allie Gillespie per cemetery records
Daniel McBurcoy is Daniel Burcoy per cemetery records
Elmira Pretzman is Elmira Prutzman per cemetery records
Flora May Dobson is Florence M Dobson pper cemetery records
Richard Watts may be infant of Richard. No given name in cemetery records
G W McElfresh may be infant of G W. No given name in cemetery records.
Lovie Young and Louie Unknown may be the same person. Louie Young in cemetery records

Cemetery records also list:

Rollie Peandrew died February 19, 1879
Infant Daughter Rhoades died March 2, 1879
Jasper Snyder died August 2, 1879
Infant Williams died December 3, and Anna E Williams died December 8, 1879. They are shown in cemetery records
as buried in the same lot with a marker, yet only the marker for Anna is there. May actually be the same person.