High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Chauncey Gilbert Whiton

17 Feb 1872 – 29 Sep 1928 · about 56 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Chauncey Gilbert Whiton lived from 17 Feb 1872 to 29 Sep 1928, a span of about 56 years.

Theirs is one of 11 markers bearing the name Whiton in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Starkes Whiton II1829–1904Helen Thomas Whiton1841–1933
Chauncey Gilbert Whitonm.Harriot Loring Cushing Whiton1871–1926 (m. 1898)also here
Helen Whiton1899–1967also here

SiblingsDavid Thomas Whiton1875–1946

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

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 Whiton family genealogy and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.

The entry, as printed
i. Chauncey Gilbert, Feb. 17, 1872

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

Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. Died in Jackson Heights, Queens County, New York, 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 Chauncey'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.