Hingham LivesHigh Street Cemetery

High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Clarissa Cushing Ripley

1805 – 1890 · about 85 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Clarissa Cushing Ripley lived from 1805 to 1890, a span of about 85 years.

Born a Cushing, and known here by the name Ripley. Theirs is one of 8 markers bearing the name Ripley in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Deacon Thomas Cushing1770–1836Ruth Turner Cushing1774–1848
Clarissa Cushing Ripleym.Henry Ripley1809–1877 (m. 1832)also here
Henry W. Ripley1833–1901also hereEbenezer Charles Ripley1835–1895also hereRoland G. Ripley1838–1886→ ~8 mGeorge R. Ripley1840–1899also hereClarissa Cushing Ripley Nickerson1841–1897also here

SiblingsHarrison Cushing1808–1827 · Emily Cushing1811–1848

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

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The stone is still there.