Hingham LivesHigh Street Cemetery

The recovered lives

The lives, recovered one at a time

Every person known to rest here has a page. These are the ones researched into a fuller life: sourced, cross-linked, and written slowly, about one a week. The work is never finished, and that is the point. Where the record is silent, we say so rather than invent the rest.

  1. John Tower 1609 – 1702 · Planter and farmer An English immigrant who became a resident of Hingham, Massachusetts, by 1637 and, with his wife Margaret Ibrook, was the progenitor of the Tower family in America.
  2. Margaret (Ibrook) Tower 1620 – 1700 · Householder English-born daughter of the settler Richard Ibrook and wife of John Tower, with whom her shared stone names her a founder of the Tower family in America, on the old Tower estate in South Hingham.
  3. Capt. Theophilus Cushing 1657 – 1718 · Farmer A South Hingham farmer who served the town as selectman and representative, and whose Find a Grave "Rev" appears to be a confusion with his minister brother, Rev. Jeremiah Cushing of Scituate.
  4. Solomon Whiting 1724 – 1813 · Blacksmith A Hingham blacksmith who lived eighty-eight years, through the whole of the Revolution. The town's muster rolls name a "Solomon Whiton", but cannot tell him apart from his son of the same name.
  5. Ezekiel Fearing 1787 – 1865 · Blacksmith A Liberty Plain blacksmith whose Main Street forge and seven children made him a quiet hinge between the Fearing and Whiting families.
  6. Anna Cushing Fearing 1791 – 1878 A deacon's daughter of South Hingham who married the Liberty Plain blacksmith Ezekiel Fearing; four of her daughters married into the Whiting family along the same Main Street road.
  7. Charles Whiting 1808 – 1887 · Manufacturer of edge-tools An edge-tool maker of Liberty Plain who married Anna Cushing Fearing, the eldest of Ezekiel Fearing's seven daughters, and one of four Whiting men who wed four of those daughters.
  8. Albert Whiting 1810 – 1891 · Master mason and builder A master mason and builder of Liberty Plain, married into the Fearings; the memorial chapel that still stands in this cemetery was raised by his son in his memory.
  9. Sarah Gilkey Fearing Whiting 1814 – 1894 A blacksmith's daughter of Liberty Plain who married the master mason Albert Whiting; the couple is remembered by the Whiting Memorial Chapel their son raised in this cemetery.
  10. Amasa Whiting 1821 – 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.
  11. Hannah Lincoln Fearing Whiting 1825 – 1910 A blacksmith's daughter of Liberty Plain who married Amasa Whiting, one of four Fearing sisters who each wed a Whiting man.
  12. Albert Turner Whiting 1833 – 1909 · Boston resident; donor of the Whiting Memorial Chapel The eldest son of a South Hingham mason who, having outlived his parents, his wife, and his only child, built the stone Whiting Memorial Chapel that still stands in High Street Cemetery.
  13. Sarah Henrietta Whiting Caryl 1849 – 1929 Daughter of the builder Albert Whiting, married into the Caryls, and mother of an infant son she outlived by fifty-seven years.
  14. Albert Whiting Caryl 1871 – 1872 An infant who lived less than a year, named for his grandfather the builder, his small stone naming both his parents.

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