High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Lucy A Young Tower

4 May 1820 – 27 Mar 1900 · about 80 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Lucy A Young Tower lived from 4 May 1820 to 27 Mar 1900, a span of about 80 years.

Born a Young, and known here by the name Tower. Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 5relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Lucy A Young Towerm.William Tower1808–1879 (m. 1840)also here
Lucy Ann Tower Gardner1853–1876also hereWilliam Arthur Tower1855–1900John Henry Tower1858–1944Elizabeth Maria Tower Clark1861–1942also 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 Tower 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
b. in Hing. Apr. 18, 1807. m. Sept. 13, 1840, Lucy A. Young. She was b. at Augusta, Me., May 4, 1820. William d. 11 Apr. 1879, aet. 72d yr. "Trader," his specialties being musical instruments, antique furni- ture, and bric-a-brac. Resided on the ancestral homestead, Main St., near Tower's Bridge. Ch., all b. in Hing., — i. Lucy Ann, Oct. 17, 1853. m. at Wey. Jan. 12,

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

Born in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, USA. Died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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