High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Oliver Cushing
12 Jul 1878 – 29 Jul 1947 · about 69 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Oliver Cushing lived from 12 Jul 1878 to 29 Jul 1947, a span of about 69 years.
Theirs is one of 214 markers bearing the name Cushing in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsGertrude Warren Cushing1874–1947
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. Distances are to relatives whose graves are also recorded here.
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 Cushing family genealogy and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.
The entry, as printed
iii. Oliver, July 12, 1878
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
The inscription
1836 William Cushing 1906his wife1842 Harriot A. Higgins 1868his wife1836 Mehitable F. Cushing 1910daughter1874 Gertrude Warren 18771878 Oliver Cushing 1947his wife1878 Millicent Sanford 1974CUSHING
Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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