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
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.
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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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