High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Lydia J. Cook Hersey
2 May 1848 – 7 May 1912 · about 64 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Lydia J. Cook Hersey lived from 2 May 1848 to 7 May 1912, a span of about 64 years.
Born a Cook, and known here by the name Hersey. Theirs is one of 56 markers bearing the name Hersey in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsAngeline Mills Cook Bouldry1843–1921 · Nellie A Snow1852–1926 · Walter C Cook1856–1912 · Waldo Brown Cook1856–1925
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 Henderson family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
3, 1869, Lydia J. Cook, dau. of Richard and Mabel (Brown) Cook. She was b. at Hull, Mass., May 2, 1848. "Carpenter." Resides on Hersey St. Ch., all b. in Hing., — i. Warren Cushing, Nov. 14, 1870. ii. Horace, Oct. 14, 1872, d. next day. iii. Mabel Wade, Apr. 1'3, 1876, d. next day. iv. Mabel Allen, July 24, 1877. William, 2d, b. in Hing. Oct. 16, 1798. m. Oct. 24, 1819,
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
Born in Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. Died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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