High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Lydia Bowes Whitney
27 Aug 1807 – 5 Jul 1838 · about 31 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Lydia Bowes Whitney lived from 27 Aug 1807 to 5 Jul 1838, a span of about 31 years.
Theirs is one of 5 markers bearing the name Whitney in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsAnn Catherine Adams Whitney Hersey1802–1842 · Benjamin Lincoln Whitney1810–1855
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Matched exact birth date, found in the Whitcomb family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
1802. m. Dec. 25, 1821, Caleb Hersey, and d. 23 May, 1842, fet. 40 yrs. ii. Lydia Bowes, Aug. 27, 1807, d. unm. 5 July, 1838. iii. Benjamin Lincoln, 1810, d. at Cambridge, 30 May, 1855, aet. 45 yrs. Was of the firm of Fearing and Whitney, Boston. Jason Woodward (Reuben P. — Clarissa C. Woodward), b. at Westminster, Mass., Sept. 21, 1829. m. Nov. 18, 1857, Lydia A. Davis,
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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The stone is still there.