Sacred Heart Cemetery - 86 Year Old Receipt

The above receipt was for the cemetery plot purchased when my brother Emile LeBLanc died 02 January 1925 at the age of 3 years 8 months.  It was receipt No. 901.

It is written in French because Sacré-Coeur/Sacred Heart was a French-Canadian Parish.  Though a mission parish of Ste-Anne that my family attended at the other end of Lawrence, it was intended to serve all of the French-Canadian parishes of the area.

At the time my parents were living at 92 Cross Street as stated on the receipt.  This was a permit for burial.  It states that $10 had been paid and thus obtained for said deceased the right for him and his family members  to bury him in the Sacré-Coeur Cimetière - Sacred Heart Cemetery.

The Section of the cemetery is left blank but states the lot or tomb number as 129A and the following rules listed 1 through 8 had to be followed.

The rules followed the norms of the Catholic Church at that time.  Only people in good standing in the church could be buried in a Catholic cemetery - that meant non-baptized, non-believers, those who died by suicide, those who fought in a duel, those who were excommunicated, lastly all criminals and the like would not be allowed burial.

The church viewed burial grounds as sacred.  Thank goodness those rules no longer exist.  Today, no matter where one is buried the priest or officiant blesses the grave as he/she would have in days of old.

This receipt was signed by A. Millet, S.M. (Society of Mary), Curé/Pastor

It is somewhere in this part of the Children's area of the cemetery

that my brother Emile and two other siblings are buried.

I have no idea where plot 129A would be though 

I hope to obtain a map of the cemetery.

I would also like to know why proper care does not

exist for these unmarked graves.

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Whispers Through the Willows

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

14 January 2011 - Present

Sacred Heart Cemetery, Andover, Massachusetts - Cajetan Demers

Cajetan Demers was my grandmother's brother

therefore my great uncle.

He was born 01 August 1876

in Ste-Anastasie-de-Lyster, Quebec, Canada.

He died  November 1936 in Lawerence, Massachusetts

at the age of 60 years and 3 months.

Born a Dumais, he took his mother's maiden name

of Demers and the family was always known thus.

His wife was Adele Massé Demers

was born January 1878 place unknown.

She died May 1959 in Lawrence, Massachusetts

at the age of  81 years 4 months.

Buried with them is the son

Philibert Joseph Adrien Demers

He was born 20 February 1905 in Lawrence, Massachusett

He died September 1968 at the age of 53 years 7 months.

Also in this grave is Phil's wife

Viola Lescarbeau who was born 1907

in Lawrence, Massachusetts and died

August 1961 at the age of 54.

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Whispers Through The Willows

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

2011- Present

Wednesdays Child - Emile, Rita and Alphee LeBlanc

Sacred Heart Cemetery

Andover, Massachusetts

Children's Section

Two brothers and a sister are buried in 

this section of Sacred Heart Cemetery.

There are  but a few wooden crosses.

When children died in the early 1900s many families

could not afford to purchase plots or headstones.

My brother Emile Joseph Alphée LeBlanc

was born 23 April 1921 in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

He died  02 January 1925 at the age of 3 years 8 months.

My sister Rita Marie Alexina LeBlanc

was born 02 May 1922 in Lawrence, Massachusetts

She died 11 February 1925 at the age of 2 years 9 months.

My brother Alphee Joseph Georges LeBlanc

was born 16 February 1931 in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

He died 08 February 1932 at almost one year.

They have no headstone and I do not know exactly where they are buried 

except that I was told by the parish secretary that they we buried near where the fence is today.

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Whispers Through the Willows

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

2011 - Present