High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Moses Binney Tower

26 Apr 1814 – 29 Nov 1898 · about 84 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

Moses Binney Tower lived from 26 Apr 1814 to 29 Nov 1898, a span of about 84 years.

Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Moses Tower1785–1862also hereMary Binney Tower1790–1825also here
Moses Binney Towerm.Olive Gould Cushing Tower1816–1907also here
Mary Binney Tower Malcolm1839–1911also hereLydia Cushing Hall1841–1933also hereMoses Spencer Tower1848–1900also hereFlorence Estelle Tower1856–1952also here

SiblingsMary Jones Tower Allen1810–1883 · John Wesley Tower1821–1893 · Spencer Binney Tower1823–1841

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
ii. Moses Binney, Apr. 26, 1814. m. at Hull, June 10, 1838, Olive G. Cushing, dau. of Pyam and Olive (Lovell) Gushing. They removed to Ea. Boston, and thence, in 1879, to Auburndale, Mass

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

Born 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 Moses'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.