Amasa Jacobs Whiting

2 Apr 1849 – 20 Nov 1904 · about 55 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Amasa Jacobs Whiting lived from 2 Apr 1849 to 20 Nov 1904, a span of about 55 years.

Theirs is one of 27 markers bearing the name Whiting in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 9relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave

Hannah Lincoln Fearing Whiting1825–1910also here

Amasa Jacobs Whitingm.Mary W Cushing Whiting1846–1926 (m. 1871)also here

Chauncy Whiting1871–1871also hereMay Cushing Whiting Speare1873–1913also hereAmasa Whiting1874–1897also hereMale Whiting1879–1879also hereMaria Jacobs Whiting1879–1879also here

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

Matched exact birth date on a child line in the Whiton family genealogy, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed

ii. Amasa Jacobs, Apr. 2, 1849

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

Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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