High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Mary Jane Tower Whitcomb
16 Jul 1824 – 28 Jun 1901 · about 77 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Mary Jane Tower Whitcomb lived from 16 Jul 1824 to 28 Jun 1901, a span of about 77 years.
Born a Tower, and known here by the name Whitcomb. Theirs is one of 6 markers bearing the name Whitcomb in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsJoshua Tower1812–1884 · Angelina Hersey Tower Cushing1818–1901 · Edwin Tower1821–1910 · Anna Hersey Tower1827–1907
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 Tower family genealogy, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
v. Mary Jane, July 16, 1824. m. Jan. 16, 1848, E. Barker Whitcomb
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 Mary'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.