Beauchamp Cemetery

Beauchamp (pronounced Beechum) Cemetery is about 3 1/2 miles east of the Illinois River bridge at Meredosia, and is high on the southeast slope of a large bluff. The cemetery is difficult to reach and practically impossible to see until a person is standing in it as the dense brush hides the tombstones, only two of which remain standing. A large tree has fallen across the small burial area. The cemetery has a broken down wire fence separating it from a nearby field. When a bulldozer was being used in the field at the bottom of the bluff, the operator reportedly disturbed some burials there, evidently part of Beauchamp Cemetery. The cemetery is north of Coon Run waterway and Spunky Ridge Road and about 1/4 mile east of Routh 104. Beauchamp Cemetery is about 1/2 mile north of Hodges Cemetery (also known as Muntman Cemetery and as Sycamore Cemetery). While standing in Beauchamp Cemetery it is possible to see the Chambersburg water tower, approximately nine miles away. It is possible to see parts of Morgan, Pike and Brown counties from Beauchamp Cemetery.