High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Mary Binney Tower
14 Jun 1790 – 12 Jun 1825 · about 35 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Mary Binney Tower lived from 14 Jun 1790 to 12 Jun 1825, a span of about 35 years.
Born a Binney, and known here by the name Tower. Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Matched exact birth date, found in the Tower family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
May 7, 1809, Mary Binney, dau. of Spencer and Mary (Jones) Bin- ney. She was b. at Hull, June 14, 1790, and d. in Hing. 12 June, 1825, aet. 35 yrs. He m. secondly, Dec. 25, 1825, Abigail Andrews Goold, dau. of Robert and Molly (Lincoln) Goold. She was b. at Hull, Apr. 11, 1786, and d. in Hing. 26 Aug. 1870, aet. 84 yrs. Moses d. 31 Oct. 1862, 33t. 78th yr. " Farmer."
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
Born in Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. Died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
A photograph of the marker survives; see it on Find a Grave ↗.
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The stone is still there.