Hello, There's been an old graveyard in Tewksbury that I've wanted to walk around for 10 years. It was so nice outside yesterday that I didn't want to walk around inside a store. One reason I hadn't visited it before because it is not a convenient place to park and walk in. It's at the intersection of 2 busy streets, Main St. and Shawsheen St. (Rt. 38). Another problem yesterday, one of the streets was closed because of flooding. And, when I got up into the property, I saw that flooding was right up against the other 2 sides of the graveyard. 3 of the stones were within inches of the water. I had thought that there might be a KIDDER stone there, and I was correct. It was for either Jedidiah or Jeruthedah (sp?) KIDDER, and the smaller stone for his wife, Abigail. The largest set of stones was for the THOMPSON name. There is no obvious name for this graveyard but I can guess it might be referred to locally as the Thompson graveyard. Some of the usual names were there, if you know the history of Billerica (Tewksbury annexed off in the 1730's). This graveyard is not in the best condition; it could use some clean-up and making several stones stand up again. The only other visitor in the graveyward was a "garden snake" - another sign of SPRING ! (And a flock of ducks or geese flying down into the "swollen pond.") Just an FYI for you. Betty (near Lowell, MA) (I'm on a non-genealogy Town List, and this town has had a lot of flooding - because of its location. They were talking about the year they had as much flooding and it was 1996. But, if my memory is working, I think there was another spring of bad flooding a little after that. I seem to remember that there was so much water that .. gravestones .. were being uprooted and moving. And, in one case, some stones in possibly a cemetery in Winchester were seen - floating away down a swollen stream. It might have been beside the current train tracks - and those tracks were built in early-1800's to go along the route of the "Old Middlesex Canal.") .. By the way, last fall I noticed an old graveyard right on the edge of Rt. 128 in the Peabody area. And, a few weeks ago I took a Sunday-drive on Saturday and drove to Maine. While on Rt. 95, I noticed a very tiny, old graveyard - right alongside that major highway. Nothing was around it. It might have been in the Falmouth or Yarmouth area.