High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Joshua Tower
25 Apr 1733 – 30 Sep 1810 · about 77 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Joshua Tower lived from 25 Apr 1733 to 30 Sep 1810, a span of about 77 years.
Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsSamuel Tower Sr1729–1811 · Isaiah Tower1731–1811
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Matched exact birth date on a child line in the Tower family genealogy, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
iv. Joshua, Apr. 25, 1733. m. Jan. 30, 1776, Lucy, dau. of Solomon Dun- bar, and d. 30 Sept. 1810, aet. 77 yrs. Joshua was constable 1766, and captain of a military company in active service during the War of the Revolution
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
A photograph of the marker survives; see it on Find a Grave ↗.
This is what the record holds so far: gathered, sourced, and still growing. There is more of Joshua's life to recover, and some of what is shown above is matched, not certain. A correction or a family memory is a gift; submit a source, correction, or memory.
The stone is still there.