High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Cushing Gates
18 Oct 1863 – 2 Aug 1871 · about 8 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Cushing Gates was a child, who lived from 18 Oct 1863 to 2 Aug 1871, about 8 years.
Theirs is one of 6 markers bearing the name Gates in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsElizabeth Richmond Gates1859–1956 · Lulie Gates1862–1862 · John Alden Gates1868–1868
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Matched exact death date, found in the Gates family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
Lulie, Sept. 3, 1862, d. 25th of same month. iii. Cushing, b. at Newport, Oct. 1, 1863, d. 2 Aug. 1871. iv. John Alden, May 14, 1868, d. 23d of same month. v. Lillian Cushing, Sept. 27, 1870. vi. Myron Chauncey, Sept. 30, 1879. GAY. 1. Ebenezer 8, s. of Nathaniel 2 and Lydia (Luscher), and gr. s. of John l of Dedham, Mass., was b. at Dedham, Aug. 15, 1696 ; grad. at Har.
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
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The stone is still there.