High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Mary Russell Jacob
1 Apr 1641 – 2 Oct 1691 · about 50 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Mary Russell Jacob lived from 1 Apr 1641 to 2 Oct 1691, a span of about 50 years.
Born a Russell, and known here by the name Jacob. Theirs is one of 28 markers bearing the name Jacob in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsSamuel Russell1640–1676 · Elizabeth Russell Adams1643–1712
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. Distances are to relatives whose graves are also recorded here.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Matched exact birth date, found in the Humphrey family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
sec. w. he in. Oct. 3, 1661, Mary, dau. of George and Jane Russell. She was bt. in Hing. Apr. 1, 1641, and d. 2 Oct. 1691, aet. 50 yrs. He d. 18 Sept. 1693, set., as his gravestone in the High Street Cemetery says, " about 63 yrs." Resided on Main St., near the meeting-house of the sec. parish, So. Hing. John was an active business man ; was one of the proprietors among
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
The inscription
Here lyes ye body of Mary Jacob ye wife of John Jacob Aged 52 years died October 2 1691
Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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