High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Mary Stowers Hersey Cushing
15 Sep 1818 – 1892 · about 74 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Mary Stowers Hersey Cushing lived from 15 Sep 1818 to 1892, a span of about 74 years.
Born a Hersey, 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
SiblingsLydia Dyer Hersey Jacob1817–1885 · Henrietta Hersey Ripley1836–1868
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
5, 1819. m. Mary S. Hersey, dau. of Seth S. and Betsey (Reed) Hersey. She was b. in Hing. Sept. 15, 1818. Rob- ert d. 29 Dec. 1855, aet. 36th yr. Resided on Main St., So. Hing. Ch.,— i. Rohkrt, Jan. 17, 1842. m. Nov. 28, 1866, Martha E. Seiders of Boston, and d. 26 Sept. 1869, aet. 28th yr. (See " Hingham in the Civil War.") ii. Marietta, March 27, 1851, d. 17 March, 1852.
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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