High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Caleb Cushing
29 Oct 1822 – 7 Dec 1893 · about 71 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Caleb Cushing lived from 29 Oct 1822 to 7 Dec 1893, a span of about 71 years.
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
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. A ✓ marks a tie the 1893 History of Hingham independently confirms.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Line of descent, as the genealogy traces it: Pyam › Robert › Pyam › Theophilus › Daniel › Mat.
Matched exact birth date in their own Cushing family entry (no. 108), corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
108. Caleb 8 (Pyam 7 Robert 6 Pyam 5 Theophilus *-» Daniel 2 Mat. thew l), b. in Hing. Oct. 29, 1822. m. Jan. 22, 1846, Caroline Stodder, dau. of Daniel and Lydia (Wilder) Stodder. She was b. in Hing. 182 Cashing. Sept. 28, 1823. " Farmer." Resides on the paternal homestead, Main St., So. Hing. Ch., b. in Hing., — i. Caleb Bennett, July 2, 1847, d. 19 Sept. 1852. ii. Isaiah, March 2, 1850. m. June 18, 1873, Lydia Maria, dau. of Benjamin and Lydia C. (Fearing) Jones. They have one child, Ada, b. in Hing. Aug. 14, 1878. iii. Ada Caroline, June 10, 1852, d. 14 Apr. 1870.
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical), family entry no. 108. Read on archive.org ↗
Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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