The below cemetery has been visited, by me at least 15 times, as it is rather close by, and since I have ancestors there, my husband and I like to stroll through it. The first two photos show what we always saw, lots of trees. Imagine our surprise earlier this year, when we saw that a number of trees had been removed. Recently, we returned for another view of the cemetery. This is where the Anne Dudley Bradstreet memorial is. Note: Wikipedia's information for Andover has a lot of historical information as well as an impressive list of well-known former residents.
NOTE On October 17, 2013, I received notice of a research report about this cemetery. It includes all names, dates, location and links to the FindAGrave photos! Once on the Research Report, scroll down to the link for website and database.
13 comments:
I'll have to visit that place someday and see
if any of my Abbott ancestors are buried there!
Bill
Hi, Barbara! I, too love to stroll thru cemeteries. There's just something peaceful about it and after a while you get to know the "people there" by walking by and reading their tombstones. It's just like visiting old friends!
I will definitely have to visit this cemetery-- maybe next year when we take our cross-country trip! I have lots of ancestors buried here, as you well know :-) Too bad about the broken headstones and the loss of the beautiful trees. Was there a reason they were removed??
The trees being taken down and the broken grave stones, especially the ones all over the tree trunk, are so sad. Thank you for showing the cemetery!
Thank you all for your comments. I will go back soon and perhaps do an update. Betty, I don't know why they decided to remove the trees, but it sure doesn't look the same.
Congratulations on your My Heritage Top 100 mention. Way to go!
Nice photos! My official visit for Top 100!
Congratulations on MyHeritage.com Top 100 Recognition!
Bill ;-)
http://drbilltellsancestorstories.blogspot.com/
Author of "Back to the Homeplace"
and "13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories"
Congrats on your My Heritage Top 100 award. You deserve it. You are definitely on MY top 100.
Thank you Bill and Michelle very much.
LUV seeing the seasons in this cemetery where some of my kith 'n kin are resting . . . thanks a bunch for doing the legwork . . . and for sharing!
Thanks Vicki for the comment. Now I need to take a Fall photo to go with the other seasons. Other posts with this cem. have 2 ancestors and misc. tombstone photos.
Nice work Barbara! Thank You for sharing this I appreciate your work and all your blog post!
One tree was dead and had dropped large branches during storms. The other tree was struck by lightening and split all the way to the ground. During a storm a few months later the top 20 feet came down on top of several gravestones. So both were taken down intentionally before nature took them down and did damage.
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