About Ridgewood Cemetery
Ridgewood Cemetery is a cemetery near North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. It lies about 2.1 mi northwest of North Andover. The grounds sit at about 187 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 9 notable people buried here, including Richard Hovey, Moses Tyler Stevens and William Elliott. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 599035. The nearest other listed cemetery is Second Burying Ground, about 0.7 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Conte Funeral Homes in North Andover, about 2.0 mi away. It is one of 244 cemeteries we list in Essex County, and 107 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Essex County dates to 1820. 3 of the 244 listings in Essex County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, North Andover. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Ridgewood Cemetery
Among them: 1 actor, 1 architect, 1 baseball player, 1 US representative, 1 writer.
- Richard Hovey1864-1900American writer
- Moses Tyler Stevens1825-1907Mill owner and US Congressional representative from Massachusetts
- William Elliott1879-1932American actor and theatrical producer
- Herbert Baldwin Foster1874-1906American German-language classical philologist
- Johnny Barrett1915-1974American baseball player
- Sarah Loring Bailey1834-1896
- Caroline Stevens Rogers1894-1985US museum curator
- John F. Alter1882-1973
- Samuel Dale Stevens1859-1922USA mill owner
People whose Wikidata entry gives Ridgewood Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
42.67938, -71.10280
What Ridgewood Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Second Burying GroundNorth Andover, MACemetery0.7 mi
- First Burying GroundNorth Andover, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Old North Parish Burying GroundNorth Andover, MAChurch cemetery0.9 mi
- Holy Sepulchre CemeteryNorth Andover, MACemetery1.6 mi
- Phillips Academy CemeteryAndover, MA · est. 1820Military cemetery2.5 mi
- Brookside CemeteryNorth Andover, MACemetery2.7 mi
- Christ Church CemeteryAndover, MAChurch cemetery2.7 mi
- South Church CemeteryAndover, MAChurch cemetery2.7 mi
- Mount Vernon CemeteryNorth Andover, MACemetery2.7 mi
- Syrian CemeteryNorth Andover, MACemetery2.9 mi
Funeral homes near Ridgewood Cemetery
- Conte Funeral Homes2.0 miFuneral home · North Andover · (978) 681-5000
- John Breen Memorial Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · North Andover · (978) 682-8381
- Conte Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Andover · (978) 470-8000
- Burke-magliozzi Funeral Home2.5 miFuneral home · Andover · (978) 475-5200
- Perez Funeral & Cremation Service3.0 miCremation provider · Lawrence · (978) 655-4533
- Diaz-healy Funeral Home, Inc.3.3 miFuneral home · Lawrence · (978) 685-5732
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