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*Jenkins Family Cemetery
*Jenkins Family Cemetery - See Woodbridge-Jenkins Family Cemetery  
**Located off Douglas Road near the Jenkins Farmhouse.
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**Graves in this cemetery date back to 1752.
**Only 6 grave stones remain all direct descendants of Rev. John Woodbridge, the first minister of Andover.
***The remains of the Jenkins family were removed and place in the William Jenkins Lot of the Spring Grove Cemetery.
 
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*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=640791 Phillips Academy Chapel Cemetery]
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=640791 Phillips Academy Chapel Cemetery]
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*[http://www.northparish.org/index.php North Parish Burial Ground in North Andover]
*[http://www.northparish.org/index.php North Parish Burial Ground in North Andover]
**First burial ground established in Andover.  Andover split into the North Parish (North Andover) and South Parish (Andover) in 1855.
**First burial ground established in Andover.  Andover split into the North Parish (North Andover) and South Parish (Andover) in 1855.
**[http://hne-rs.s3.amazonaws.com/filestore/1/2/9/1/1_40bc7622deefd6a/12911_e6dfb13f33ac7fb.pdf"The Old Burial Ground on Academy Road, North Andover]
**[http://hne-rs.s3.amazonaws.com/filestore/1/2/9/1/1_40bc7622deefd6a/12911_e6dfb13f33ac7fb.pdf The Old Burial Ground on Academy Road, North Andover]




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*[http://www.southchurch.com/cemetery/index.html South Church Cemetery]
*[http://www.southchurch.com/cemetery/index.html South Church Cemetery]
**Located at the corner of Central and School Streets (41 Central Street)
**Located at the corner of Central and School Streets (41 Central Street).
**Oldest cemetery in Andover
**Oldest cemetery in Andover.
**First burial was Robert Russell in 1710.
**First recorded burial was Robert Russell in 1710.
**The first two ministers, Rev. Samuel Philips and Rev. Jonathan French, and their families are buried here.  Also buried are the founders of Phillips Academy, Andover Theological Seminary and the Abbot Female Academy.
**Andover's Revolutionary War dead are buried here or remembered at the triangle of School and Central Streets.
**See [[South Church (Parish)]]
**See [[South Church (Parish)]]
**[http://www.southchurch.com/cemetery/ List of people buried in South Church Cemetery]
**[http://www.southchurch.com/cemetery/ List of people buried in South Church Cemetery]
[[File:southchurchmap.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Map of South Parish Cemetery]]
[[File:southchurchmap.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Map of South Parish Cemetery]]
[[File:Memorial.jpg|200px|thumb|center|List of Memorials in South Parish Cemetery]]
[[File:Memorial.jpg|200px|thumb|center|List of Memorials in South Parish Cemetery]]






*[http://andoverma.gov/facilities/cemetery/ Spring Grove Cemetery]
*[http://andoverma.gov/facilities/cemetery/ Spring Grove Cemetery]
**Located on Abbot Street.
**Located on Abbot Street named for the spring on the property.
**This is the Andover town cemetery.   At the annual town meeting on March 1, 1869, it was voted to purchase land for the cemetery. Graves in this cemetery date back to 1871.  A history of the cemetery is contained in a pamphlet entited "Spring Grove Cemetery: Information and rules and regulations, June 30, 1941.  
**This is the Andover town cemetery.  
**An online search by name is located on the town's website [http://andoverma.gov/facilities/cemetery/search.php Spring Grove Cemetery search]
**Funds ($3,000) appropriated at the 1869 town meeting purchase 41 acres from the heirs of Nehemiah Abbott for the cemetery.
**Dedicated on October 15, 1871.   
**A statue dedicated to Civil War Veterans erected on cemetery grounds.
**An online search by name, a map of the cemetery, and a list of rules and regulations are located on the town's website [http://andoverma.gov/facilities/cemetery/search.php Spring Grove Cemetery]  
***See "Spring Grove Cemetery steeped in History, Shrouded in Beauty", The Townsman, October 29, 2015, page 11.




*[http://www.jcam.org/Pages/Cemeteries_New/Cemetery_Pages_08/Lawrence_Mt_Vernon.html Temple Emanuel Cemetery]
*[http://www.jcam.org/Pages/Cemeteries_New/Cemetery_Pages_08/Lawrence_Mt_Vernon.html Temple Emanuel Cemetery]
**Corbett and Mount Vernon Street
**Located at Corbett and Mount Vernon Street.




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*Woodbridge Family Graveyard
*Woodbridge-Jenkins Family Cemetery
**Behind 89 Jenkins Road
**Located at 4 Douglas Lane, off Mortimer Road, off Jenkins Road.
**Only 12 stones remain in this unused family graveyard.
**17 people were buried here between 1753-1882.
**Originally the Samuel Jenkins family was buried there.  They have all been reinterred at Spring Grove.
**In 1882, 8 members of the Jenkins family were reinterred, 7 to Spring Grove Cemetery (William Jenkins lot), 1 to South Church Cemetery.
**9 remain, 6 members of the Benjamin Woodbridge family (1805-1853, direct descendants of Rev. John Woodbridge, the first minister of Andover), and 3 children of Samuel and Rebecca Jenkins, who died on consecutive days in September 1753.
**The town adopted the cemetery at the 2002 town meeting.
**The town adopted the cemetery at the 2002 town meeting.
**A 2003 Eagle Scout project cleaned up, restored, and fenced in the cemetery.
**A 2014 Eagle Scout project built a footbridge and footpath from the road to the cemetery.
[[Image:Jenkins.jpg|thumb|...Woodbridge and Jenkins Family Cemetery.... click to enlarge|left]]


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See  
See  


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*[http://andover.mvlc.org/eg/opac/record/26062?query=farm%20and%20neighborhood%20cemeteries;qtype=keyword;fi%3Asearch_format=;locg=5 "Farm and Neighborhood Cemeteries of Andover and North Andover, Mass, Including Stone Inscriptions"] by Lenora White McQuesten.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/eg/opac/record/26062?query=farm%20and%20neighborhood%20cemeteries;qtype=keyword;fi%3Asearch_format=;locg=5 "Farm and Neighborhood Cemeteries of Andover and North Andover, Mass, Including Stone Inscriptions"] by Lenora White McQuesten.
*"Finding roots in Andover," ''Eagle Tribune'', January 11, 2009, p. 9.
*"Finding roots in Andover," ''Eagle Tribune'', January 11, 2009, p. 9.
*[http://andover.essexcountyma.net/cemeteryindex.html Andover Church and Cemetery Guide]
* "Bridging Town History: Eagle Scout candidate builds critical link to early cemetery," ''Andover Townsman'', September 11, 2014, p. 17.
* [http://andover.essexcountyma.net/cemeteryindex.html Andover Church and Cemetery Guide]




See also
See also


*[http://andover.essexcountyma.net/cemeteryindex.html Andover Church and Cemetery Guide]
* [https://mvlc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/andover/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:50527/one Guide to Cemeteries in Essex County Massachusetts] R929.5 Gui (The information for Andover is in the Andover File -- Cemeteries.)
* [http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=32772&t=guide%20to%20cemeteries%20in%20massachusetts&tp=keyword&l=5&d=1&hc=2&rt=keyword Guide to Cemeteries in Essex County Massachusetts] R929.5 Gui (The information for Andover is in the Andover File -- Cemeteries.)
*[http://andoverhistorical.org/ The Andover Historical Society] has a list of cemetery inventories for Christ Church, St. Augustine's, Phillips Academy Chapel, Spring Grove, South Church and West Parish cemeteries.
 
*[http://andoverhistorical.org/ The Andover Historical Society] has a list of cemetery inventories for Christ Church, St. Augustine's, Phillips Academy Chapel, Spring Grove, West Parish cemeteries.
 
 




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--[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] 15:41, June 13, 2006 and December 2, 2014 (EDT)<br>
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--[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] ([[User talk:Eleanor|talk]]) 10:52, 18 March 2015 (EDT)<br>
--[[User:Kim|Kim]] ([[User talk:Kim|talk]]) 14:33, 3 February 2016 (EST)<br>
--[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] ([[User talk:Eleanor|talk]]) 13:23, 12 February 2016 (EST)


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Revision as of 16:21, 20 July 2017

The first documented gravestone in Andover was placed at South Church in 1711.


  • Chapel Cemetery at Phillips Academy
    • Originally the cemetery for the Andover Theological Seminary
    • First burial was in 1810.
    • Those buried include: Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Dove; Alice Buck; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Warren Draper.
      • See "A little cemetery - a lot of history," Andover Townsman, December 5, 2013, p. 16.



  • Cornelius Gould Farm Cemetery
    • Contains only three gravestones and a few unmarked graves: Cornelius Gould, Lydia Gould, and Emerson Gould.
    • When the boundary line between Andover and North Reading was established in 1904, a portion of the Gould Farm was in North Reading. The cemetery is in this portion.


  • Jenkins Family Cemetery - See Woodbridge-Jenkins Family Cemetery



  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    • Located at 80 Corbett Road in the Shawsheen section of Andover.
    • A member of the Catholic Cemetery Association





  • South Church Cemetery
    • Located at the corner of Central and School Streets (41 Central Street).
    • Oldest cemetery in Andover.
    • First recorded burial was Robert Russell in 1710.
    • The first two ministers, Rev. Samuel Philips and Rev. Jonathan French, and their families are buried here. Also buried are the founders of Phillips Academy, Andover Theological Seminary and the Abbot Female Academy.
    • Andover's Revolutionary War dead are buried here or remembered at the triangle of School and Central Streets.
    • See South Church (Parish)
    • List of people buried in South Church Cemetery
Map of South Parish Cemetery
List of Memorials in South Parish Cemetery


  • Spring Grove Cemetery
    • Located on Abbot Street named for the spring on the property.
    • This is the Andover town cemetery.
    • Funds ($3,000) appropriated at the 1869 town meeting purchase 41 acres from the heirs of Nehemiah Abbott for the cemetery.
    • Dedicated on October 15, 1871.
    • A statue dedicated to Civil War Veterans erected on cemetery grounds.
    • An online search by name, a map of the cemetery, and a list of rules and regulations are located on the town's website Spring Grove Cemetery
      • See "Spring Grove Cemetery steeped in History, Shrouded in Beauty", The Townsman, October 29, 2015, page 11.



  • West Parish Cemetery
    • Located at 129 Reservation Road.
    • Graves in this cemetery date back to 1692 & 1751.


  • Woodbridge-Jenkins Family Cemetery
    • Located at 4 Douglas Lane, off Mortimer Road, off Jenkins Road.
    • 17 people were buried here between 1753-1882.
    • In 1882, 8 members of the Jenkins family were reinterred, 7 to Spring Grove Cemetery (William Jenkins lot), 1 to South Church Cemetery.
    • 9 remain, 6 members of the Benjamin Woodbridge family (1805-1853, direct descendants of Rev. John Woodbridge, the first minister of Andover), and 3 children of Samuel and Rebecca Jenkins, who died on consecutive days in September 1753.
    • The town adopted the cemetery at the 2002 town meeting.
    • A 2003 Eagle Scout project cleaned up, restored, and fenced in the cemetery.
    • A 2014 Eagle Scout project built a footbridge and footpath from the road to the cemetery.
...Woodbridge and Jenkins Family Cemetery.... click to enlarge



See

  • "Buried here (famous Andover residents)," Andover Townsman, October 26, 1995, p. 1.
  • "Historic Undertaking: Repairing stones is grave matter," Andover Townsman, February 21, 2002, p.1.
  • "Revolutionary War-era cemetery now town's," Andover Townsman, April 25, 2002.
  • "Revolutionary War era cemetery is town's: Woodbridge Jenkins Cemetery," Andover Townsman, May 2, 2002, p. 22.
  • "Farm and Neighborhood Cemeteries of Andover and North Andover, Mass, Including Stone Inscriptions" by Lenora White McQuesten.
  • "Finding roots in Andover," Eagle Tribune, January 11, 2009, p. 9.
  • "Bridging Town History: Eagle Scout candidate builds critical link to early cemetery," Andover Townsman, September 11, 2014, p. 17.
  • Andover Church and Cemetery Guide


See also


--Eleanor 15:41, June 13, 2006 and December 2, 2014 (EDT)
--Kim 20:38, December 12, 2012 (EST)
--Eleanor (talk) 10:52, 18 March 2015 (EDT)
--Kim (talk) 14:33, 3 February 2016 (EST)
--Eleanor (talk) 13:23, 12 February 2016 (EST)

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