High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Harriet Hersey Gardner

4 Apr 1801 – 27 Mar 1895 · about 94 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Harriet Hersey Gardner lived from 4 Apr 1801 to 27 Mar 1895, a span of about 94 years.

Born a Hersey, and known here by the name Gardner. Theirs is one of 38 markers bearing the name Gardner in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Harriet Hersey Gardnerm.Solomon Gardner1797–1860also here
James L. Gardner1822–1896also hereLoring Gardner1826–1905also here

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

Matched exact birth date, found in the Gardner family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed
Dec. 6, 1821, Harriet Hersey, dau. of John and Anna (Cushing) Hersey. She was b. in Hing. Apr. 4, 1801. Solomon d. 18 Dec. 1860, aet. 63 yrs. « Shoe manuf'r." Resided on Main St., " Liberty Plain," So. Hing. Ch., b. in Hing., — i. James Lincoln, Aug. 21, 1822. m. Oct. 25, 1846, Mary D. Cushing, dau. of Leonard and Mary C. (Whiting) Cushing. Their dau., Mary Collier, b.

1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗

A photograph of the marker survives; see it on Find a Grave ↗.

This is what the record holds so far: gathered, sourced, and still growing. There is more of Harriet's life to recover, and some of what is shown above is matched, not certain. A correction or a family memory is a gift; submit a source, correction, or memory.

The stone is still there.