High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Hobart Cushing

13 Sep 1785 – 30 Nov 1882 · about 97 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Elizabeth Hobart Cushing lived from 13 Sep 1785 to 30 Nov 1882, a span of about 97 years.

Born a Hobart, 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 Hobart Cushingm.Ensign Cushing1796–1864also here
Lydia L. Cushing1817–1834also hereMary Hobart Cushing Fearing1821–1866also here

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 Hobart family genealogy, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed
iii. Elizabeth, Sept. 13, 1785. m. (1) Dec. 25, 1806, Thomas Cushing, Jr., and (2) Sept. 29, 1816, Ensign Cushing

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

The inscription

Wife of Ensign Cushing. Aged 97 years.

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 Elizabeth'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.