Cemeteries in Andover

• Chapel Cemetery at Phillips Academy
  • Originally the cemetery for the Andover Theological Seminary

• Christ Church Cemetery

• Jenkins Family Cemetery
  • Located off Douglas Road near the Jenkins Farmhouse.
  • Graves in this cemetery date back to 1752.

• St. Augustine's Church Cemetery

• Old Burial Ground in North Andover
  • Located on Academy Road in North Andover
  • First burial ground established in Andover. Andover split into the North Parish (North Andover) and South Parish (Andover) in 1855.

See

• "The Old Burial Ground on Academy Road, North Andover

• Saint Francis Seminary Cemetery
  • On River Road

• South Church Cemetery
  • Oldest cemetery in Andover
  • First burial was Robert Russell in 1710.

• Spring Grove Cemetery
  • This is the Andover town cemetery. At the annual town meeting on March 1, 1869, it was voted to purchase land for the cemetery. A history of the cemetery is contained in a pamphlet entited "Spring Grove Cemetery: Information and rules and regulations, June 30, 1941.

An online search by name is located on the town's website [1]

• Temple Emanuel Cemetery+
  • Corbett and Mount Vernon Street

• United Lebanese Cemetery
  • Corbett Street

• West Parish Cemetery

• Woodbridge Family Graveyard
  • Behind 89 Jenkins Road
  • Only 12 stones remain in this unused family graveyard.
  • Originally the Samuel Jenkins family was buried there. They have all been reinterred at Spring Grove.
  • The town adopted the cemetery at the 2002 town meeting.

See

• Andover Townsman, May 2, 2002

See also

• Guide to Cemeteries in Essex County Massachusetts R929.5 Gui (The information for Andover is in the Andover File -- Cemeteries.)

• The Andover Historical Society has a list of cemetery inventories for Christ Church, St. Augustine's, Phillips Academy Chapel, Spring Grove, West Parish cemeteries.

--Eleanor 15:41, June 13, 2006 (EDT)

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