High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

John Alden Gates

14 May 1868 – 23 May 1868

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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John Alden Gates was an infant. Born 14 May 1868, died 23 May 1868, a life of less than two years.

Theirs is one of 6 markers bearing the name Gates in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 5relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
John D. Gates1828–1887also hereJoanna Alden Cushing Gates1836–1921also here
John Alden Gates

SiblingsElizabeth Richmond Gates1859–1956 · Lulie Gates1862–1862 · Cushing Gates1863–1871

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

The entry, as printed
iv. John Alden, May 14, 1868, d. 23d of same month

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

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