Looking for the location of a certain Andover resident’s gravesite, or researching the birth and/or death date of a relative from Andover? There is now a searchable app located on the Cemetery Trustees’ town website for Andover Cemeteries.
Go to the Andover town website: Andover-nh.gov. Click on Boards & Committees and select Andover Cemetery Trustees; then click on Cemetery Gravesite location on the left side of the page in the navy-colored box. The page titled Cemetery Gravesite location will come up; click on the words in red “Database link” and the search page will appear. Read the information on the page before you begin.
Click on the Search button in the upper-left corner to get to the home page. This page allows you to search by the name of the interred or by the purchaser of the plot if you know it. The full name will give you just that person if found. I would recommend using a last name only, which widens your search.
The site allows you to search all cemeteries by default, or you may look within a specific cemetery. Touch the green Search button. If using a phone or your iPad, it may look like nothing changed. Scroll down and the information is below the Search button.
I entered just the last name of my family and the list of family members buried within Andover cemeteries is shown in the picture below. Note that there is a view button next to each individual where I can click to bring up just that individual’s information. Also note that any birth or death dates that start with 01/01/year means the only information given and entered into the database was the year, not the day or month; the software defaults to Jan 1.
If you wish to provide updated information please use the following email and send us the individual’s name, plus a picture of a birth or death certificate for us to verify the information. We will do our best to update as much as we can. Send to andover.Cemetery.Committee@nullgmail.com
Not finding an individual whom you believe was buried in Andover? If the person may have been Catholic in the 1800s, it is possible they were buried in the Elkins Cemetery in Elkins. It was a Catholic Cemetery, which had consecrated grounds, considered to be an extension of the Catholic Church, and it was part of their faith to be buried in consecrated ground.
My family were Irish Catholic immigrants when they arrived in Andover, and I have great-great grandparents buried in the Elkins Cemetery. Another place to look for an Andover relative is at the currently named Webster Lake Cemetery on Apple Farm Road in Franklin. It was known as Sawyer Cemetery when the land was still part of Andover.
If you are looking for more information you can also search through www.findagrave.com. Many of our Andover graves have been documented and photographed on this site. Happy searching!