The Furnessville Cemetery is a couple of acres in northern Westchester Township of Porter County that was not included with the establishment of what is now the Indiana Dunes National Park. A neighborhood cemetery established in the 19th century next to what had been a wood schoolhouse built circa 1867 and that also served the community as a church. By 1886 a larger brick schoolhouse was constructed directly across the road and that continued in service until the rural schools were consolidated after WWI. The neighborhood had earlier been designated of Furnessville in 1861 with the establishment of the Post Office.

The earliest interred in the small cemetery was a child and also a GAR civil war veteran in 1862, and a nonagenarian in 1863. Death notices referring to the Furnessville cemetery began in the 1880s. In November 1887 Fred Cross and his wife Sophia Cross transferred one acre to the trustees of the cemetery C.S Bradley, E.L. Furness and Henry Wilson. This same land was transferred by E.L. Furness and his wife Mary E. Furness in May of 1923 to the cemetery trustees Henry Lewry, Paul Abraham, and John Quade. A care fund was established by a neighborhood gathering organized by Thomas Edward Morgan in 1928 under an Oak Tree. Another care fund was established by 1969 to raise funds to transfer to the Trustees for the operations and beautification of the cemetery.

The Westchester Township History Museum hosted a tour of the cemetery in the fall of 2011 that saw over 125 visitors. Their late curator Eva Hopkins added many notes to the Find-A-Grave website on the early farmers, and duneland neighbors that included a score of artists from the School of the Chicago Art Institute. The enchanting resting place in the Indiana Dunes has been portrayed by numerous painters. The father and maternal grandparents and great grandfather of the Pulitzer winning author and American naturalists Edwin Way Teale are interred here. Teale who had maintained a home here in Furnessville was the author of Dune Boy: The earliest years of a naturalists" in 1943 that was also published as a moral booster in a pocket size edition in for the American troops in WWII. Teale's Dune Boy is mostly set here in the Furnessville neighborhood at the turn of the last century. A poetic sequel, Toys in the Closet was published in 2015 and chronicles the struggles to save the local dunes as a National Lakeshore and eventually as a National Park.

By 2023 there are just under 600 graves in the Furnessville Cemetery, 577 noted on the website Find-A-Grave.

The Furnessville Care Fund sends out an annual newsletter with notes on the neighborhood cemetery and to remind heirs to honor the cemetery with donations. P.O. Box 897 Beverly Shores, Indiana 46301