High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Mary J Tower
16 Jul 1824 – 28 Jun 1881 · about 57 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Mary J Tower lived from 16 Jul 1824 to 28 Jun 1881, a span of about 57 years.
Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
A 1893 History of Hingham entry, likely this person uncertain match
The 1893 genealogies repeat many names; this is matched exact birth date on a child line in the Tower family genealogy and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.
The entry, as printed
v. Mary Jane, July 16, 1824. m. Jan. 16, 1848, E. Barker Whitcomb
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 Mary'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.