High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Olive Cushing Fearing Whiting

4 Mar 1819 – 22 Aug 1850 · about 31 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Olive Cushing Fearing Whiting lived from 4 Mar 1819 to 22 Aug 1850, a span of about 31 years.

Born a Fearing, and known here by the name Whiting. Theirs is one of 27 markers bearing the name Whiting in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Ezekiel Fearing1787–1865also hereAnna Cushing Fearing1791–1878also here
Olive Cushing Fearing Whiting

SiblingsSarah Gilkey Fearing Whiting1814–1894 · Mary Adams Fearing Tower1817–1838 · Hannah Lincoln Fearing Whiting1825–1910

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

Matched exact death date, found in the Whiton family genealogy — read as a lead, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed
York, or Newark, N. J. ix. Benjamin Shuktleff, March 22, 1815. m. Olive C. Fearing, who d. 22 Aug. 1850, aet. 31 yrs. (See " Hingham in the Civil War.") x. Davis Jacob, Nov. 15, 1816. Resides at Chicago, 111. xi. Julia Ann Bowker, Feb. 7, 1820. ru. William Brown of Ab'n. 48. Joseph J.6 (Amasa5 Daniel4 Samuel3 James21), b. in Hing. Dec. 29, 1778. m. first, Ann Eliza Crane.

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

The inscription

Wife of Benjamin S Whiton.

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 Olive'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.