High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Theophilus Cushing
8 Aug 1725 – 21 Aug 1776 · about 51 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Theophilus Cushing lived from 8 Aug 1725 to 21 Aug 1776, a span of about 51 years.
Theirs is one of 214 markers bearing the name Cushing 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, found in the Cushing family genealogy — read as a lead and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.
The entry, as printed
1810, William Rouse of Bath, Me. 31. Pyam 5 (Theophilus « Dauiel2 Matthew l), b. in Hing. Aug. 8, 1725. m. Jan. 24, 1751, Hannah Lincoln, dau. of Hon. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Thaxter) Lincoln. She was b. in Hing. Sept. 10, 1729, and d. 25 Aug. 1813, aet. 84th yr. He d. 21 Aug. 1776, aet. 51 yrs. « Far- mer." Constable 1755, and selectman 1770 and 1771. Was styled " Captain."
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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