Sacred Heart Cemetery is located at 80 Corbertt Street in the Shawsheen Heights section of Shawsheen Village in Andover. This property was once farmland of Samuel Poor which was part of the West Parish in Andover and the Poor School District which was annexed in 1845 to become the south side of the new city of Lawrence, MA.

The cemetery is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and serves the parishioners of Sacred Heart Church on Broadway Street in Lawrence, MA. Most of the families interred here are of French - Canadian nationality who settled in Lawrence and surrounding towns. " Sacred Heart parish started as a mission to St. Anne's Church in North Lawrence in the year 1899, but became a separate parish in 1904 when growth of the French-speaking population on the South side [of Lawrence] swelled to a large proportion." Two areas in the cemetery have also been set aside for former Priests of the Parish.

Andover Townsman - Aug. 2, 1906 – Special Town Meeting – 3 articles - $30,000 gift to Memorial Hall Library, 2. A new Railroad Depot, 3rd To see if the town will allow a certain parcel of land on Corbett Street to be uses as a cemetery for the purpose of burial. Attorney Mahoney represented the parishioners – To be used as a burial ground for the French Catholics of South Lawrence who live over the line from where the land is located. “Passed” (Sacred Heart Cemetery)

1916 Andover Directory lists Wifred Beauchesne, Sexton, French Cemetery,house on Corbertt.