High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Mary A Tower

1854 – 14 Dec 1854

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Mary A Tower was an infant. Born 1854, died 14 Dec 1854, a life of less than two years.

Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 2relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
James Greenville Tower1831–1884also here
Mary A Tower

SiblingsM Addie Tower1857–1905

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 death date, found in the Shute family genealogy (read as a lead) and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.

The entry, as printed
aet. 46th yr. " Mason." Resided in Hing. and Boston. Ch.,— i. Edwin Lincoln, b. at Boston, Dec. 14, 1854. ii. Quincy Lane, b. in Hing. Nov. 28, 1857, d. 24 Dec. 1860. iii. Hattie Gordon, b. in Hing. Feb. 9, 1862. 7. Charles (Charles = Mary C. Cushing), b. in Hing. Apr. 24, 1822. m. first, Elizabeth Wilson of Sharon, Conn. She d. in Hing. 1850, aet. 23 yrs. He m. secondly,

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

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