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The first documented gravestone in Andover was placed at South Church in 1711.
Dedicated in November of 1930, The St. Francis Seminary, a Catholic school to train boys for the priesthood, was built on River Road near the Tewksbury line. The seminary was closed in 1977.  The building then became part of the Franciscan Retreat and Conference Center.  


See
* "St. Francis Seminary Lights Drew Thousands of Onlookers,"'' Andover Townsman'', December 18, 2008.


[https://preservation.mhl.org/chapel-cemetery '''Chapel Cemetery at Phillips Academy''']
*[http://www.andovertownsman.com/local/x528363060/Elderly-housing-proposal-considered-for-River-Road/print Elderly Housing Proposal Considered for River Road, Franciscan Center Land.  ] ''Andover Townsman'' May 12, 2011
*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.




[http://www.christchurchandover.org/ '''Christ Church Cemetery''']
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*Located at 25 Central Street.
[[Image:stfrancis.jpg|200px|thumb|left|St Francis Seminary.]]
*Graves in this cemetery date back to 1840.




[https://preservation.mhl.org/112-gould-road '''Cornelius Gould Farm Cemetery''']
[https://preservation.mhl.org/439-river-rd 459 River Road, Andover Historic Preservation Profile.]
*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.


With Christmas Lights - A popular holiday sight form the mid-1930's to the mid-1960's
''Andover Townsman'', December 25, 2014, page 14.


'''Jenkins Family Cemetery''' - See Woodbridge-Jenkins Family Cemetery
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--[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] 15:53, August 17, 2011 (EDT)<br>
[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=640791 '''Phillips Academy Chapel Cemetery''']
--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 16:23, July 31, 2012 (EDT)<br>
*Located on Chapel Avenue.
--[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] ([[User talk:Eleanor|talk]]) 15:33, 22 January 2016 (EST)
*The burying ground of Andover Theological Seminary.
 
 
[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=91539&CScntry=4&CSst=21&CScnty=1177&CSsr=281& '''Sacred Heart Cemetery''']
*Located at 80 Corbett Road in the Shawsheen section of Andover.
*A member of the Catholic Cemetery Association
 
[http://staugustineparish.org/church_home.html '''St. Augustine's Church Cemetery''']
*Located off Lupine Road; office at 43 Essex Street.
*Graves in this cemetery date back to 1855.
 
 
 
[https://www.northandoverhistoricalsociety.org/first-burying-ground '''First Burying Ground, North Parish''' North Andover Historical Society]
*[http://www.northparish.org/cemetery/church.html North Parish Burial Ground in 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]
 
 
[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=91565 '''Saint Francis Seminary Cemetery''']
 
 
[http://www.southchurch.com/cemetery/index.html '''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)]]
*[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:Memorial.jpg|200px|thumb|center|List of Memorials in South Parish Cemetery]]
 
 
 
[https://www.andoverma.gov/309/Spring-Grove-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 [https://www.andoverma.gov/618/Spring-Grove-Cemetery-Viewer] 
*See "Spring Grove Cemetery steeped in History, Shrouded in Beauty", The Townsman, October 29, 2015, page 11.
 
 
[https://www.jcam.org/Pages/Cemeteries/Cemetery_Pages/Lawrence_Mt_Vernon.html '''Temple Emanuel Cemetery''']
**Located at Corbett and Mount Vernon Street, Lawrence
 
 
[https://preservation.mhl.org/99-corbertt-street '''United Lebanese Cemetery''']
*First Syrian Cemetery in the United States. (see ''Legacies of Labor'')
 
 
 
[http://www.westparishgardencemetery.org/ '''West Parish Cemetery''']
*Located at 129 Reservation Road.
*Graves in this cemetery date back to 1692 & 1751.
 
 
*[https://preservation.mhl.org/4-douglass-ln '''Woodbridge-Jenkins Family Cemetery - Douglas Lane''']
**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.
[[Image:Jenkins.jpg|thumb|...Woodbridge and Jenkins Family Cemetery.... click to enlarge|left]]
 
 
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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.
*[https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/projects/lawrence.php Legacies of Labor Lebanese Factory Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts]
*"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.
*[https://mvlc.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/andover/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:380293/one "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.
* [http://magenweb.org/Essex/Andover/cemeteryindex.html Andover Church and Cemetery Guide]
*[[Media:JenkinscemeteryEagleTribune.pdf|Woodbridge Jenkins Cemetery: Family cemetery deeply rooted in the town’s past Eagle Tribune June 13, 2021]]
 
 
See also
 
*[https://archive.org/details/farmneighborhood00mcqu Farm and neighborhood cemeteries of Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts, including stone inscriptions]
* [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://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.
 
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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]]) 13:23, 12 February 2016 (EST)
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Dedicated in November of 1930, The St. Francis Seminary, a Catholic school to train boys for the priesthood, was built on River Road near the Tewksbury line. The seminary was closed in 1977. The building then became part of the Franciscan Retreat and Conference Center.

See

  • "St. Francis Seminary Lights Drew Thousands of Onlookers," Andover Townsman, December 18, 2008.



St Francis Seminary.


459 River Road, Andover Historic Preservation Profile.

With Christmas Lights - A popular holiday sight form the mid-1930's to the mid-1960's Andover Townsman, December 25, 2014, page 14.


--Eleanor 15:53, August 17, 2011 (EDT)
--Leslie 16:23, July 31, 2012 (EDT)
--Eleanor (talk) 15:33, 22 January 2016 (EST)

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