High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Isaiah Tower Jr.
12 Apr 1766 – 14 Jul 1807 · about 41 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Isaiah Tower Jr. lived from 12 Apr 1766 to 14 Jul 1807, a span of about 41 years.
Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. A ✓ marks a tie the 1893 History of Hingham independently confirms.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Line of descent, as the genealogy traces it: Isaiah › Peter › Benjamin › John.
Matched exact birth date in their own Tower family entry (no. 38), corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
38. Isaiah6 (Isaiah4 Peter3 Benjamin 2 John J), b. in Hing. Apr. 12, 1766. m. Apr. 15, 1789, Hannah Jacob, dau. of John and Lydia (Beal) Jacob. She was b. in Hing. Feb. 5, 1771, aud d. 23 Feb. 1844, aet. 73 yrs. He d. 14 July, 1807, aet. 41 yrs. Upon a gravestone erected to his memory in the High St. cemetery are the foil, lines : " Farewell, my friends, I must be gone ; I have no home nor stay with you. The time is now swift hastening on When you must bid the world adieu. Prepare, Prepare to sleep with me, In hope a better world to see. " The ch. of Isaiah and Hannah were — 42. i. Isaiah, July 31, 1789. 43. ii. Joshua, Oct. 7, 1790. 44. iii. Leavitt, Jan. 1, 1793. 45. iv. Reuben, July 3,
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical), family entry no. 38. Read on archive.org ↗
The inscription
Farewell my friends I must be gone I have no home nor stay with you The time is now swift hurrying on When you must bid the world adieu..Prepare, prepare to stop______ ______ In hope of a better world to see.son - Isaiah Tower b. 31 July 1789
Died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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This is what the record holds so far: gathered, sourced, and still growing. There is more of Isaiah'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.