Spring is the time when Windham’s Public Works crew can be seen in the old graveyards of town, clipping, pruning and mowing – a tough job when most of the old yards don’t accommodate riding equipment or even power push mowers! This old disintegrating gravestone, with its carved “angel of death” head at the top, is for Abraham Andrew, a son of John and Elizabeth Andrew. He died April 19, 1795 in Windham. He was nine years old, and the uncle of the future Civil War governor of Massachusetts, John Albion Andrew. This gravestone is in Brown Cemetery on Chute Road. The earliest burial here was in 1791. This is one of the oldest of the town’s nearly two dozen cemeteries. The property where Brown Cemetery is located was once owned by the Andrew family, and after that, by Ezra Brown. Photo courtesy of Windham Historical Society
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