South Parish Cemetery 

Andover, Massachusetts 

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South Parish Cemetery is located directly behind South Parish Church on Central Street in Andover, MA. This project will be ongoing and I hope to have all it online over the winter of 2005/2006. At this time, there are over 675 names in this database, most of which coincide with a picture.  

The old Andover USGenWeb page contained a database and photographs of many headstones. Those names and photographs will be the first to be added to this new and improved database. I thank Brian Beckerman for beginning this project and I will be honored to complete it.

As I obtain more photos, more names will be added to the list. Names and dates will not be added to this list until I have a photograph of the headstone which can be used. I have several hundred photos already, please be patient as I begin the arduous task of making them available on the web. 

The database in the church office does not reflect everyone buried in this cemetery. They have done their best to make a compilation of "still standing" stones, but there will be many cases, especially with the oldest stones, where no data can be found. The first headstone laid in this cemetery was around the year 1721, more than two years after the parish was founded. Anyone buried before that period of time will have never had a proper stone, and there will be no way to confirm exact burial location other than to obtain church records to prove they were indeed members of the South Parish during its earliest years. You will notice many of the oldest and/or damaged stones are being replaced. If the original stone still stands, the replacement stone is directly behind it and the original is left in tact. 

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to email me and I will do my best to answer your questions or implement your suggestions. If you come across any broken links, or photos which do not open up, let me know that too. Please forgive any difficult to read stones. I have not put photos online unless I can read them. That being said, some stones are in better shape than others, and some stones, for whatever reason, photograph better. Do not be discouraged if you find some monuments for which not all sides are complete yet, nor if you find a wife, and not the husband !

Now, happy hunting - I hope you will be able to place your eyes and hands on that headstone photograph you may not have been able to view otherwise !