High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Josiah Lane

18 Sep 1821 – 24 May 1901 · about 80 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Josiah Lane lived from 18 Sep 1821 to 24 May 1901, a span of about 80 years.

Theirs is one of 14 markers bearing the name Lane in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

A 1893 History of Hingham entry, likely this person uncertain match

The 1893 genealogies repeat many names; this is matched exact birth date on a child line in the Lane family genealogy and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.

The entry, as printed
iii. Josiah, Sept. 18, 1821. m. Nov. 12, 1846, Mary G., dau. of Henry and Mary (Gardner) Cushing

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

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 Josiah'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.