High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Harriet Hersey Gardner

4 Apr 1801 – 27 Mar 1895 · about 94 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Harriet Hersey Gardner lived from 4 Apr 1801 to 27 Mar 1895, a span of about 94 years.

Born a Hersey, and known here by the name Gardner. Theirs is one of 38 markers bearing the name Gardner in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 3relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Harriet Hersey Gardnerm.Solomon Gardner1797–1860also here
James L. Gardner1822–1896also hereLoring Gardner1826–1905also here

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

A 1893 History of Hingham entry, likely this person uncertain match

The 1893 genealogies repeat many names; this is matched exact birth date, found in the Gardner family genealogy (read as a lead), corroborated by a relative's name and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.

The entry, as printed
Dec. 6, 1821, Harriet Hersey, dau. of John and Anna (Cushing) Hersey. She was b. in Hing. Apr. 4, 1801. Solomon d. 18 Dec. 1860, aet. 63 yrs. « Shoe manuf'r." Resided on Main St., " Liberty Plain," So. Hing. Ch., b. in Hing., — i. James Lincoln, Aug. 21, 1822. m. Oct. 25, 1846, Mary D. Cushing, dau. of Leonard and Mary C. (Whiting) Cushing. Their dau., Mary Collier, b.

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

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