Hannah Lincoln Fearing Whiting

Hannah Lincoln Fearing was born on the 1st of April, 1825, and died in 1910, an eighty-five-year life that reached from the age of sailing packets into the age of the automobile. Her three names carry the story in miniature: a Fearing by birth, a Whiting by marriage, with Lincoln, another deep Hingham name, given to her at the font.

The 1893 History of Hingham records her among the children of the blacksmith Ezekiel Fearing and Anna Cushing Fearing, and it settles what the cemetery only suggested: on the 27th of August, 1844, she married Amasa Whiting. Hers was not the only such match. Her sister Anna married Charles Whiting, the maker of edge-tools; her sister Sarah Gilkey married Charles’s brother Albert, the master mason the cemetery’s chapel remembers; and a third sister, Olive Cushing Fearing, married Benjamin S. Whiting. Four daughters of one Main Street house, each married into the same family of neighbors.

That a Fearing daughter married a Whiting is exactly the kind of quiet fact that turns a field of graves into a community. These families were not strangers buried by chance in the same yard; they were neighbors who married one another, and their stones stand together because their lives did.

Family as recorded on Find a Grave

Ezekiel Fearing1787–1865also hereAnna Cushing Fearing1791–1878also here

Hannah Lincoln Fearing Whitingm.Amasa Whiting1821–1883✓also here

Mrs Mary Lincoln Whiting Groce1845–1905also hereAmasa Jacobs Whiting1849–1904also hereAda Bowker Whiting Bacon1853–1913also here

SiblingsSarah Gilkey Fearing Whiting1814–1894 · Mary Adams Fearing Tower1817–1838 · Olive Cushing Fearing Whiting1819–1850

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. A ✓ marks a tie the 1893 History of Hingham independently confirms.