High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Charles Alonzo Dorr
12 Feb 1851 – 1933 · about 82 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Charles Alonzo Dorr lived from 12 Feb 1851 to 1933, a span of about 82 years.
Theirs is one of 2 markers bearing the name Dorr in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsRev George Newell Dorr1844–1931
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 Dawes family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
aet. 5th yr. DORR. Charles Alonzo (Samuel A. = Mary M. Wedgewood), b. at Sand- wich, N. H., Feb. 12, 1851. m. March 23, 1878, Bertha L. Wentworth, dau. of Alexander P. and Margaret E. (Howse) Wentworth. She was b. at Bethel, Me., July 3, 1852. " Physician." Resides on Main St., So. Hing. DOUGHTY. James (Joseph = Sarah Rauper), b. at Liverpool, Eng., May 15, 1821. m. July
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
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