High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Cushing Gates

18 Oct 1863 – 2 Aug 1871 · about 8 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Cushing Gates was a child, who lived from 18 Oct 1863 to 2 Aug 1871, about 8 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
Cushing Gates

SiblingsElizabeth Richmond Gates1859–1956 · Lulie Gates1862–1862 · John Alden Gates1868–1868

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 Gates 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
Lulie, Sept. 3, 1862, d. 25th of same month. iii. Cushing, b. at Newport, Oct. 1, 1863, d. 2 Aug. 1871. iv. John Alden, May 14, 1868, d. 23d of same month. v. Lillian Cushing, Sept. 27, 1870. vi. Myron Chauncey, Sept. 30, 1879. GAY. 1. Ebenezer 8, s. of Nathaniel 2 and Lydia (Luscher), and gr. s. of John l of Dedham, Mass., was b. at Dedham, Aug. 15, 1696 ; grad. at Har.

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

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