Beech Grove Cemetery: A Primer

Beech Grove remained one of the city’s prominent cemeteries throughout the 20th century, even as new burial grounds appeared across our civic landscape. Over 44,000 people have been laid to rest within the cemetery’s gates - rich and poor, Black and white, titans of industry, teachers, factory workers, soldiers, politicians, and religious leaders - Muncie’s history is quite literally buried at Beech Grove Cemetery.