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The first documented gravestone in Andover was placed at South Church in 1711.
Miriam Putnam, 1904-1996, served as director of Memorial Hall Library for 28 years from 1939-1967. A 1925 graduate of Radcliffe College, Ms. Putnam went on to receive a Library Science degree from Columbia University. She worked at the Newton Free Library before coming to Andover. Miss Putnam served as Chairperson of the American Library Association Subcommittee on Adult Education, a board member of the Public Library Association and as President of the Massachusetts Library Association. She frequently contributued to national publications for librarians and educators.  


During her tenure, Andover became the headquarters of one of the seven subregions in the Eastern Massachusetts Regional Library system. The contract was signed on June 11, 1967.
Miss Putnam retired from Memorial Hall in 1967 but went on to work as Assistant Librarian at Talledega College, the oldest historically black college in Alabama.   


[https://preservation.mhl.org/chapel-cemetery '''Chapel Cemetery at Phillips Academy''']
Miss Putnam was a member of the NAACP, the ACLU and the Alabama Council on Human Relations.  
*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.


[[Image:Miriam_Putnam.jpg|thumb|...''Miriam Putnam at groundbreaking, 1965''.... click to enlarge|left]]


[http://www.christchurchandover.org/ '''Christ Church Cemetery''']
[[Image:MiriamPutnamRadcliffeRepublicanClub.JPG|thumb|..."Miriam Putnam '25 new leader of the Radcliffe Republican Club. Boston Post November 17, 1924|center]]
*Located at 25 Central Street.
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*Graves in this cemetery date back to 1840.
 
 
[https://preservation.mhl.org/112-gould-road '''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
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[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=640791 '''Phillips Academy Chapel Cemetery''']
*Located on Chapel Avenue.
*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'')




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[http://www.westparishgardencemetery.org/ '''West Parish Cemetery''']
*''Miriam Putnam was librarian extraordinaire''  Andover Townsman  October 4, 2018 [https://www.andovertownsman.com/news/townspeople/miriam-putnam-was-a-librarian-extraordinaire/article_9bd56057-2fd1-5847-a6c6-d09edd476fe8.html ]
*Located at 129 Reservation Road.
*Having the First Shovelful. (photo) (groundbreaking for library's 1960's addition) ''Andover Townsman'' September 2, 1965, p.1
*Graves in this cemetery date back to 1692 & 1751.


*Reading Room Named for Town Librarian. (photo) ''Andover Townsman'' November 23, 1966, p.1,16.


*[https://preservation.mhl.org/4-douglass-ln '''Woodbridge-Jenkins Family Cemetery - Douglas Lane''']
*Miss Putnam Leaving Memorial Hall. (photos) ''Andover Townsman'', September 14, 1967, p. 1,2.
**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]
*[File:JenkinscemeteryEagleTribune.pdf]


*''Miriam Putnam obituary ''Andover Townsman'''', March 28, 1996


See also
* Here are a few charming diary pages that Ms Putnam left behind when she retired.  AJA refers to A.J. Anderson, her successor. [[File:Miriamputnam.pdf ]]
*Putnam, Miriam ''Film Forums an Adventure in Adult Education'' [[Media:The_educational_screen.pdf ]], volume 22, 1956
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*[https://archive.org/details/farmneighborhood00mcqu Farm and neighborhood cemeteries of Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts, including stone inscriptions]
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* [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.)
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*[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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Miriam Putnam, 1904-1996, served as director of Memorial Hall Library for 28 years from 1939-1967. A 1925 graduate of Radcliffe College, Ms. Putnam went on to receive a Library Science degree from Columbia University. She worked at the Newton Free Library before coming to Andover. Miss Putnam served as Chairperson of the American Library Association Subcommittee on Adult Education, a board member of the Public Library Association and as President of the Massachusetts Library Association. She frequently contributued to national publications for librarians and educators.

During her tenure, Andover became the headquarters of one of the seven subregions in the Eastern Massachusetts Regional Library system. The contract was signed on June 11, 1967. Miss Putnam retired from Memorial Hall in 1967 but went on to work as Assistant Librarian at Talledega College, the oldest historically black college in Alabama.

Miss Putnam was a member of the NAACP, the ACLU and the Alabama Council on Human Relations.

...Miriam Putnam at groundbreaking, 1965.... click to enlarge
..."Miriam Putnam '25 new leader of the Radcliffe Republican Club. Boston Post November 17, 1924



See

  • Miriam Putnam was librarian extraordinaire Andover Townsman October 4, 2018 [1]
  • Having the First Shovelful. (photo) (groundbreaking for library's 1960's addition) Andover Townsman September 2, 1965, p.1
  • Reading Room Named for Town Librarian. (photo) Andover Townsman November 23, 1966, p.1,16.
  • Miss Putnam Leaving Memorial Hall. (photos) Andover Townsman, September 14, 1967, p. 1,2.
  • Miriam Putnam obituary Andover Townsman', March 28, 1996

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--Stephanie (talk) 16:59, 28 July 2021 (EDT)
--Stephanie (talk) 10:25, 30 March 2021 (EDT)
--Glenda 10:26, June 14, 2007 (EDT)
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