Lowell Cemetery

Lowell Cemetery Official page of the Proprietors of the Lowell Cemetery. A Garden Style Cemetery listed on the Natio

Harriet E. Reed was born in 1840. Her father, Ransom Reed, was a well-to-do grocer in Lowell, MA, who served as a Massac...
08/23/2025

Harriet E. Reed was born in 1840. Her father, Ransom Reed, was a well-to-do grocer in Lowell, MA, who served as a Massachusetts State Senator. Harriet died on August 8, 1876 and is buried with her parents and other family members on Tuckerman Ave. The Reed monument is behind individual family headstones. Harriet’s is second from the right. The larger marker showcases the family name and serves as a central point for commemorating all buried within the lot. Individual markers were placed directly on the grave of the deceased. The Reed marker, beautifully decorated with an angel looking upwards, columns, and a laurel wreath, has a distinctive top. Acanthus leaves with seed pods combine two distinct symbols. Acanthus leaves can symbolize immortality and rebirth. The seed pods and buds often symbolize a life that ended prematurely. Harriet died when she was 36 years old.

Happy Birthday to Horace Butterfield Coburn who was born in Lowell, MA, on this day in 1840. He was living in Boston, MA...
08/16/2025

Happy Birthday to Horace Butterfield Coburn who was born in Lowell, MA, on this day in 1840. He was living in Boston, MA, and working as a clerk when he enlisted as a Private in the Union Army on August 29, 1862. Horace served in “F” Co., MA’s, 44th Infantry. He married Harriet Nesmith on October 29, 1868. Harriet’s father, John Nesmith, built the new couple a house at 275 Andover St., on a portion of his estate. A spacious Second-Empire house, it is representative of the style-consciousness of its Andover St. neighbors. After Harriet died in 1871, Horace married Mary Fellows in 1876 who had lived with her parents across the street at 256 Andover St.

Horace died on November 25, 1910 and is buried with Mary on Hosford Ave. Harriet is buried with members of the Nesmith family on Arbutus Path.

Moses Warren Kidder was born in Townsend, MA, on September 11, 1828. He studied with his father at Harvard Medical Schoo...
08/15/2025

Moses Warren Kidder was born in Townsend, MA, on September 11, 1828. He studied with his father at Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1852. He married (Frances) Maria Palmer in 1855 and they had two sons. He practiced medicine in Lowell until 1870 when he resigned his practice due to ill health. In 1872, the family moved to Boston, MA, and then to Lincoln, MA, in 1879. He was an expert in the field of chemistry and held patents for the application of gas as a source of light. Dr. Kidder was a prominent Swedenborgian, a religious movement very popular in the late 1800s that was rooted in Emanuel Swedenborg’s (1688-1772) interpretation of the Bible. Dr. Kidder died on this day in Waltham, MA, in 1900. A family monument on Washington Ave., near the intersection with Wilberforce Ave., lists his name, but the Lowell Cemetery has no record of his burial. He may be buried in Lincoln, MA. Source: “The Boston Daily Globe,” August 16, 1900.

Moses Giles Howe died in Cambridge, MA, on August 14, 1896. The front of his headstone is difficult to read, but the sec...
08/14/2025

Moses Giles Howe died in Cambridge, MA, on August 14, 1896. The front of his headstone is difficult to read, but the second photo shows the epitaph on the back that is very clear: “His work is done. He is at rest.”

Moses was married three times. His first wife, Lydia died in 1853. Moses then married Lydia’s sister, Mary, who died in 1867. They are both buried beside Moses on Washington Ave. His third wife, Abigail, outlived Moses and is buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

Joseph Pinder was born in Newmaket, NH, in September, 1798. He married Eliza Ann Swett in Portsmouth, NH, and they had t...
08/12/2025

Joseph Pinder was born in Newmaket, NH, in September, 1798. He married Eliza Ann Swett in Portsmouth, NH, and they had ten children. Joseph died on this day in 1849, when his youngest son was nine years old. He is buried with Eliza and all their children on Alpine Path. The couple are appropriately identified as “Father” and “Mother.”

Happy Birthday to Lewis Stiles who was born on this day in Waterford, VT, in 1831. He married Sarah Avery in Londonderry...
08/11/2025

Happy Birthday to Lewis Stiles who was born on this day in Waterford, VT, in 1831. He married Sarah Avery in Londonderry, NH, on August 3, 1856. Lewis died on September 19, 1888 and is buried beside Sarah on Crocus Path. Sarah died 11 years after Lewis, but her headstone copies the shape and lettering of her husband’s. They both have a peon-topped (sloping top that tapers to a point) headstone with an incised curved rectangular shape designating the area for inscription. Their names are in all caps and appear in relief surrounded by carved dots. Their birth and death dates are incised. Sarah’s headstones has the additional wording, “WIFE OF LEWIS STILES.”

Alexander Wight Sherman was born in Lowell, MA, in 1838. He married Anna Watson on September 8, 1862. Alexander was a di...
08/10/2025

Alexander Wight Sherman was born in Lowell, MA, in 1838. He married Anna Watson on September 8, 1862. Alexander was a director of the Erie Telephone Co., founded in 1883. The company was established by Charles Glidden (buried in the Lowell Cemetery on Wilberforce Ave.), who is credited with constructing the first long-distance telephone line between Lowell and Boston. Alexander expanded the Lowell telephone operation to a national system, providing service from Massachusetts to Texas and beyond. He died on this day in 1887 and is buried with Anna on Cushing Ave. The photo shows his burial marker on the lower left, beside his daughter Etta Sherman Hanchett’s large monument. Source: “The Boston Daily Globe,” August 11, 1887.

Emeline Gates was born on July 12, 1812 and married Hapgood Wright on January 1, 1835 in Lowell, MA. Emeline’s sister An...
08/09/2025

Emeline Gates was born on July 12, 1812 and married Hapgood Wright on January 1, 1835 in Lowell, MA. Emeline’s sister Ann Gates Perley died on December 29, 1847, 13 days after the birth of her daughter Ann Elizabeth. Emeline and Hapgood adopted Ann Elizabeth and raised her as their only child. Emeline died on August 7, 1877 and is buried with Hapgood on Wildwood Path.

Amasa W. Parker was born in Blue Hill, ME, in 1816. He died in Lowell, MA, on this day in 1850 and is buried on Talbot A...
08/08/2025

Amasa W. Parker was born in Blue Hill, ME, in 1816. He died in Lowell, MA, on this day in 1850 and is buried on Talbot Ave., a beautifully designed headstone marks the location. A book, carved in relief, lays open in a circle. Amasa’s name is also in relief and is emphasized by two bands creating a half circle. This inscription appears centered below his name:

died
Aug. 7. 1850.
Æt 34

The epitaph is illegible except for the final words, “my husband’s grave.” Amasa’s sister, Susan Parker is buried nearby. Her death in 1834 predates the Lowell Cemetery, but when Amasa purchased this lot, he had her reinterred here.

Eleazer Robinson Burbank was born in Lowell, MA, on December 25, 1845. When he was 21 years old, he enlisted in the Unio...
08/06/2025

Eleazer Robinson Burbank was born in Lowell, MA, on December 25, 1845. When he was 21 years old, he enlisted in the Union Army as a hospital steward in the MA 8th Infantry. After the Civil War, Eleazer worked for the next 35 years in Boston real estate. He died suddenly on this day in 1907 while on vacation in Bethlehem, NH. Eleazer is buried with his parents and brother on Francis Ave. Source: “Boston Evening Transcript,” August 10, 1907.

Born in Marlborough, NH, in 1806, Isaac Deming came to Lowell, MA, in February, 1827. In 1831, Deming married Sophrama T...
08/05/2025

Born in Marlborough, NH, in 1806, Isaac Deming came to Lowell, MA, in February, 1827. In 1831, Deming married Sophrama Trull, of the locally prominent Trull family, holders of large tracts of farmland in Tewksbury, MA, and Andover, MA. Initially, Isaac worked for the Hamilton Mills, but moved to a Tremont Mills boardinghouse where he became an overseer in a spinning room in 1850. Sophrama died in 1868 from consumption at the Tremont boardinghouse where she lived her entire married life.

Isaac never remarried and continued as an overseer in the Tremont’s spinning room. Ill health forced him to give up mill work at age 67. When he retired in 1873, friends and mill employees visited Isaac at his boardinghouse and gave him a gold-headed cane valued at about $50. Isaac’s next move was to buy a house on Butterfield Street in Lowell’s Acre neighborhood for $2,800. His son, Charles, and daughter-in-law, Sally, lived with him for a number of years. Isaac died in Woodstock, VT, on August 5, 1890, at the age of 84 and is buried with Sophrama on Wisteria Path. Source: https://loom.ly/vUl8fQs

William Andrews died on this day in 1927 at age 91. He and his wife Emma’s grave includes this quote from the Song of So...
08/03/2025

William Andrews died on this day in 1927 at age 91. He and his wife Emma’s grave includes this quote from the Song of Solomon in the “Old Testament:”

“Waiting on the shore
Until the day break and the shadows flee away”

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