South Church in Andover

South Church Cemetery Statistics
May 24, 2004

Total gravestones: 1904 stones, representing 2680 people.

Total veterans, patriots, and Pre-Revolution officers: 237, 97 newly identified.

Other veteran stats: 

2 women - both medical areas, 1 was a career army nurse WW1

4 chaplains, 1 was also a doctor - Rev. Jonathan French, second South Parish pastor

3 Civil War POWs 

8 French & Indian War officers - including Rev. French again who was a Sergeant in the King's army

67 American Revolution soldiers

4 Rev. War patriots who did not fight, but for their patriotic efforts have a flag –
3 being the men who carted Harvard's library books to Andover for safe keeping during the Battle of Bunker Hill.

119 Civil War soldiers

3 Killed in action – 1 WW2, 2 Civil War

7 Died of wounds Civil War

9 Died of disease Civil War

1 Black Civil War soldier, fought with the Mass. 54^th Regiment: Robert Rollins (1879)

2 slaves who fought in the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord, April 19^th, 1775

1 Lt. Governor of Mass.: Samuel Phillips, III (1805)

1 British soldier

Oldest vet: Pomp Lovejoy 102 - fought in the Rev. War at age 51 as a slave.

Youngest vets: 2 boys, both 16, died of disease during the Civil War at Ft. Albany, VA in 1862

British POWs from the Rev. War who stayed are probably buried here, still in research

Between 1710-1808, the first two ministers of South Parish buried 1703 people.  Samuel Phillips 892 in 61 years, and Jonathan French 811 in 37 years.  Only 195 are remembered of the 1703.  Both the Phillips and French families are buried here, as well as 3 children of the 4th pastor, Milton Badger.

Of the original 35 members, only 6 are remembered with 3 original stones remaining, the other 3 are on family monuments.

Oldest extant stone: Anne Blanchard, Feb'ry 29, 1723

Oldest person:  Pomp Lovejoy, 102

3 people over the age of 100