High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Abigail Bowker Cushing Shute

13 Oct 1825 – 25 Mar 1895 · about 70 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Abigail Bowker Cushing Shute lived from 13 Oct 1825 to 25 Mar 1895, a span of about 70 years.

Born a Cushing, and known here by the name Shute. Theirs is one of 38 markers bearing the name Shute in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 6relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Leonard Cushing1797–1881also hereMary Collier Whiting Cushing1797–1879also here
Abigail Bowker Cushing Shutem.Henry S Shute1821–1895 (m. 1848)also here
Henry Leonard Shute1850–1931

SiblingsJoanna Cushing Burrell1828–1903 · Mary Davis Cushing Gardnerunknown–1895

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 Cushing 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
Martin Leonard, b. at Scit. June 22. 1823, d. 9 Dec. 1826. iii. Abigail Bowker, b. at Scit. Oct. 13, 1825. m. Nov. 16, 1848, Henry Shute. iv. Joanna, b. in Hing. Sept. 23, 1828. m. Nov. 6, 1861, Elias A. Burrell of Ab'n. 88. Andrew7 (Seth6 Pyam5 Theophilus4"3 Daniel2 Matthew1), b. in Hing. Nov. 22, 1801. ra. July 29, 1827, Lucy Hersey, dau. of Joshua and Lucy (Jacob) Hersey.

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

Born and died in Massachusetts, USA.

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