Amasa Whiting
15 Oct 1821 – 2 Oct 1883
A Whiting of Liberty Plain who married a Fearing and kept the family homestead, one of four Whiting men who wed four Fearing sisters.
The stone is still there. Whiting Field. View the burial record ↗
Amasa Whiting was born in Hingham on the 15th of October, 1821, and died on the 2nd of October, 1883, thirteen days short of his sixty-second birthday. The 1893 History of Hingham names him a son of Joseph J. Whiting and traces the family back through Amasa, Daniel, and Samuel to James Whiton, the immigrant. He kept to the paternal homestead on Main Street at Liberty Plain.
On the 27th of August, 1844, he married Hannah Lincoln Fearing, a fact the old stones only hinted at, and the genealogy now settles. Hannah was a daughter of the blacksmith Ezekiel Fearing, and her marriage to Amasa was one of four. Her sisters married into the same family: Anna wed Amasa’s first cousin Charles Whiting, the maker of edge-tools; Sarah wed Charles’s brother Albert, the master mason; and Olive wed Benjamin S. Whiting. Four Whiting men, four Fearing sisters, one road. Amasa and Hannah raised three children of their own, Mary Lincoln, Amasa Jacobs, and Ada Bowker.
What looked, at first, like a name and two close dates turns out to be a hinge in a whole neighborhood of marriages. That is usually how it goes here: the bare record is the beginning, not the end, and the family is larger than any one stone admits.
Family as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsRev Archibald Wieting1816–1895 · Joseph Jacob Whiting Jr1818–1863 · Catherine Whiting1824–1826
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. A ✓ marks a tie the 1893 History of Hingham independently confirms.