High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Ensign Cushing
28 Dec 1796 – 5 Jul 1864 · about 68 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Ensign Cushing lived from 28 Dec 1796 to 5 Jul 1864, a span of about 68 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: Thomas › Ebenezer › Daniel › Matthew.
Matched exact birth date in their own Cushing family entry (no. 76), corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
76. Ensign7 (Thomas 6 Ebenezer 5 Daniel 4_3-2 Matthew l), b. in Hing. Dec. 28, 1796. m. Sept. 29, 1816, Mrs. Elizabeth (Hobart) Cushing, wid. of Thomas (74). She d. 30 Nov. 1882, aet. 97 yrs. He d. 5 July, 1864, aet. 68th yr. " Farmer." Resided on So. Pleasant St. Ch., b. in Hing., — i. Lydia Lincoln, May 13, 1817, d. 10 Dec. 1834. ii. Mary Hobakt, Apr. 6, 1821. m. Henry Fearing.
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical), family entry no. 76. Read on archive.org ↗
Where this was, today
The 1893 record places this person at So. Pleasant St. in Hingham. Today that is South Pleasant Street, South Hingham. Still South Pleasant Street today, in South Hingham near Fulling Mill Lane, a short way west of the cemetery. It is a short walk from the cemetery.
The street still carries the name; the exact house is not pinned, so read this as the block, not a doorstep.
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 Ensign'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.