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Happy Birthday to Martha Goward who was born in Mansfield, MA, on this day in 1821. In 1862, Martha and her husband, Zep...
02/06/2026

Happy Birthday to Martha Goward who was born in Mansfield, MA, on this day in 1821. In 1862, Martha and her husband, Zephania, built an 11-room house at 274 Appleton St. across from the South Common. Her portrait by an itinerant artist was donated to the Lowell Historical Society. According to family records, the portrait was badly damaged during the tornado of June 9, 1953 that blew through Shrewsbury. The family had it restored by specialists at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Martha and her husband are buried on Wilberford Ave. Their epitaph reads: Death Is But The Gate To Immortality.

George A. Gray was born on this day in 1839. On August 31, 1862, he was a 23-year-old mechanic in Lowell when he mustere...
02/04/2026

George A. Gray was born on this day in 1839. On August 31, 1862, he was a 23-year-old mechanic in Lowell when he mustered into the Union Army’s “C” Co. MA 6th Infantry. On December 15, 1863, he mustered into MA 7th Light Artillery. Like many other Civil War soldiers, he mustered out of Boston Harbor’s Gallops Island on November 10, 1865. The 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry, two of the first African-American regiments, trained and mustered out at Gallops Island. George died on November 3, 1882 and is buried on Kalmia Path.

Lyman Cady was born on March 28, 1798, in Woodstock, VT. While he may not have purchased the first lot in the Lowell Cem...
02/02/2026

Lyman Cady was born on March 28, 1798, in Woodstock, VT. While he may not have purchased the first lot in the Lowell Cemetery, he held the deed to Lot #1. He was 90 years old when he died on this day in 1888. The Cady family obelisk, on Evergreen Ave., has beautiful embellishments, including a dove at the top. If you look closely at the base for the obelisk, you will see the name of the stone carver, H.W. Dresser.

To acknowledge Black History Month, we would like to highlight Elizabeth Lovejoy, who married Kwaku Walker Lewis in 1826...
02/02/2026

To acknowledge Black History Month, we would like to highlight Elizabeth Lovejoy, who married Kwaku Walker Lewis in 1826. They raised four children on River Road in Lowell, MA’s Centralville neighborhood. Elizabeth purchased a ten-grave lot in 1856, on Hawthorne Path, near the Whipple Columbarium. The portrait is of their son, Walker Lewis, a veteran of the Civil War.

Click on the following link to hear Lowell Cemetery Trustee Richard Howe Jr. talk about the Lewis family and the role they played in the American story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2q0dq6hB6w&t=31s

Maj. Edward Joseph Noyes was born on this day in Georgetown, MA, in 1841, and came to Lowell with his family in 1848. Ed...
01/31/2026

Maj. Edward Joseph Noyes was born on this day in Georgetown, MA, in 1841, and came to Lowell with his family in 1848. Edward graduated from Columbia College Law School and joined the Massachusetts 3rd Calvary at the start of the Civil War in 1862. Later that year, he was promoted to Captain and then Major of the 1st Texas Cavalry. He was wounded in a cavalry charge on May 16, 1863, at Tickfaw Bridge, LA.

Edward returned to Lowell after the war and married Jennie Baker in 1875. They lived at 49 Nesmith St., one of the earliest houses built on this street. Unfortunately, he home no longer exists. Edward served as City Marshall for many years, and as Mayor in 1885, for a one-year term. Later jobs included Superintendent of the Street Railroads and Corporation Detective. Edward died on this day in 1925 and is buried with Jennie and their three children on Pindar Ave. As you can see in these photos, his flat marker is difficult to read both before and after a snow storm.

Source: lowellhistarch.omeka.net/items/show/1506

A belated Happy Birthday to Elizabeth W. Anderson born on January 26, 1850. She is mentioned in “The Great Brewster Jour...
01/29/2026

A belated Happy Birthday to Elizabeth W. Anderson born on January 26, 1850. She is mentioned in “The Great Brewster Journal of 1891,” a 2023 publication by Stephanie Schorow that describes an adventurous vacation taken by four women from Lowell during the summer of that year. The book describes a March 13, 1893, article in the “Boston Globe” that lists members of the XV Club in Lowell and includes Elizabeth and her sister, Anna. The XV Club, comprised of Lowell women, met 15 times a year for dinner and discussion. According to the publication, these meetings were far more than just social. The XV Club followed “an intensive course of education.” Elizabeth died on August 3, 1933, and is buried with her sister on Verbena Path.

Alvan Cook died on January 30, 1856. His tall monument is composed of many vertical elements built up on a series of ped...
01/27/2026

Alvan Cook died on January 30, 1856. His tall monument is composed of many vertical elements built up on a series of pedestals. A shroud covers a large form at the top. It may represent the “veil” that exists between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Catherine Cook Hatch is Alvan’s second wife. Sadly, records note that her death was by su***de. She married Albert Hatch after Alvan passed away, but Albert is buried in another Lowell Cemetery lot.

Alice, born in 1845, married Charles Conant in Lowell, MA, on June 1, 1875. They were early residents of 74 Huntington S...
01/26/2026

Alice, born in 1845, married Charles Conant in Lowell, MA, on June 1, 1875. They were early residents of 74 Huntington St., in Lower Belvidere, a street that was laid out in 1883. Alice died on this day in 1909 and is buried with Charles on Howe Ave., near the Lawrence St. gate.

Happy Birthday to Miriam Shedd born on this day in 1836 to John and Asenath Shedd. She was one of three siblings when he...
01/25/2026

Happy Birthday to Miriam Shedd born on this day in 1836 to John and Asenath Shedd. She was one of three siblings when her father died in 1858, leaving Miriam’s brother Freeman head of the Shedd household when he was 14 years old. Miriam died in Boston, MA on May 9, 1913 and is buried on Blanchard Ave., with her parents. Their grave is marked by a life-size statue of a woman who sadly scatters flowers from her basket.

Harry Howell Carter was born in Belfast, ME, on April 30, 1886. He worked for American Telephone and Telegraph his entir...
01/23/2026

Harry Howell Carter was born in Belfast, ME, on April 30, 1886. He worked for American Telephone and Telegraph his entire professional life. He married Alice E. Shaw in Lowell, MA, on October 27, 1909. Harry died on this day in 1956 and was buried with Alice, in Grove Cemetery, Belfast, ME. There is a cenotaph for both Harry and Alice on Blanchard Ave. because Alice’s mother is a descendent of the Grover family. Although difficult to see in the photo, a beautiful obelisk marking the family grave has the name Grover on the bottom. A cenotaph is a monument to a person buried elsewhere. Source: “Bangor Daily News,” January 24, 1956.

Henry Chandler Hyde was born in Newton, MA, in 1828. According to Lowell’s “Vital Records,” he died on January 23, 1845....
01/20/2026

Henry Chandler Hyde was born in Newton, MA, in 1828. According to Lowell’s “Vital Records,” he died on January 23, 1845. Henry’s headstone notes that he died in the “17 year of his life.” Unfortunately, the epitaph is illegible. He is buried beside his parents, Deacon Amos Hyde and Eliza Ray Hyde on Rogers Ave. They died 20 years later and their adjacent obelisk shows how tastes for cemetery monuments changed over that period of time.

Paul Tsongas, a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from MA, and a Democratic candidate for U.S. Presidency was born ...
01/18/2026

Paul Tsongas, a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from MA, and a Democratic candidate for U.S. Presidency was born in Lowell, on February 14, 1941. He died on this day in 1997 and is buried on Woodbine Hill, overlooking the Concord River. Click on this link to hear Lowell Cemetery Trustee Richard Howe Jr. talk about Sen. Tsongas’ political career and his deep involvement in the City of Lowell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyBBzwtk0AA&t=11s

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