High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Hannah Wilder Pratt

5 Oct 1806 – 3 Aug 1894 · about 88 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Hannah Wilder Pratt lived from 5 Oct 1806 to 3 Aug 1894, a span of about 88 years.

Born a Wilder, and known here by the name Pratt. Theirs is one of 16 markers bearing the name Pratt in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Benjamin Wilder Sr1764–1842Lydia Lane Wilder1768–1822
Hannah Wilder Prattm.Abner Pratt1802–1872 (m. 1832)also here
Sarah Lincoln Pratt Burrell1832–1902Benjamin Franklin Pratt1836–1912→ ~3 m

SiblingsLucy A Wilder Lincoln1791–1880 · John Wilder1795–1877 · Lewis Wilder1796–1856 · Mary Lydia Wilder Metcalf1798–1878 · Peter Wilder1800–1871 · Benjamin Wilder Jr1802–1884 · Ann Wilder Stoddard1804–1863 · James Sullivan Wilder1808–1889 · Harrison Wilder1813–1894

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. Distances are to relatives whose graves are also recorded here.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

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

The entry, as printed
1857, Hannah, dau. of John Lemon. Resides at Wey. 2. John ( John ^.Esther Lewis), b. in Hing. Oct. 5, 1806. in. Dec. 24, 1825, Mary S. Lincoln, dau. of Enos and Grace B. (Stodder) Lincoln (II. 456). She was b. in Hing. May 14, 1807, and d. at Wey. 3 Nov. 1877, aet. 70 yrs. He d. 8 Feb. 1871, aet. 64 yrs. " Shoemaker." Re- sided for many yrs. on Fort Hill St., but late in life

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

Born in Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. Died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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