High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Lisle Hammond Cushing

17 Jan 1804 – 11 Jan 1886 · about 82 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Elizabeth Lisle Hammond Cushing lived from 17 Jan 1804 to 11 Jan 1886, a span of about 82 years.

Born a Hammond, and known here by the name Cushing. Theirs is one of 214 markers bearing the name Cushing in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Elizabeth Lisle Hammond Cushingm.Oliver Cushing1804–1857 (m. 1828)also here
Oliver Wendell Cushing1829–1856also hereElizabeth L. Cushing Hersey1831–1866also hereWilliam Cushing1836–1906also here

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

Matched exact birth date, found in the Cushing family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed
Elizabeth Lisle Hammond, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lincoln) Hammond. She was b. in Hing. Jan. 17, 1804, and d. 11 Jan. 1886, aet. 82d yr. He d. 18 Aug. 1857, get. 54th yr. "Painter," and selectman for eighteen yrs. Re- sided on Main St., So. Hing. Ch., b. in Hing, — i. Oliver Wendell, Aug. 17, 1829. m. Dec. 18, 1850, Harriet N. Curtis, and d. 29 Dec. 1856, aet. 27 yrs.

1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗

Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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