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High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Maria Josephine Cushing Cummings

23 Apr 1835 – 1918 · about 83 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Maria Josephine Cushing Cummings lived from 23 Apr 1835 to 1918, a span of about 83 years.

Born a Cushing, and known here by the name Cummings. Theirs is one of 4 markers bearing the name Cummings in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 12relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Adam Cushing1796–1866also hereHarriet Loring Cushing1803–1882also here
Maria Josephine Cushing Cummings
Carrie Huntington Foorde1856–1874also hereNettie Gregory Cummings Crosby1865–1910Charlie Cummings1866–1866also hereLida Cummingsunknown–1873also here

SiblingsHarriet Cushing1822–1889 · Elpalet Loring Cushing1824–1885 · Emeline Cushing Bibby1828–1914 · Joseph Adams Cushing1846–1917

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 Cushing family genealogy, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed
viii. Maria Josephine, Apr. 23, 1835. m. (1) William T. Ford, and (2) George Cummings

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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