High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Michael Thayer Clapp

23 Aug 1795 – 9 Nov 1875 · about 80 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Michael Thayer Clapp lived from 23 Aug 1795 to 9 Nov 1875, a span of about 80 years.

Theirs is one of 3 markers bearing the name Clapp in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 7relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Michael Clapp1760–1800Eunice Sylvester Clapp1776–1833
Michael Thayer Clappm.Hannah Wilder Clapp1799–1871 (m. 1824)also here
Hannah Wilder Clapp1827–1915also here

SiblingsEunice Clapp Bowker1790–1865 · Sarah S. Clapp1793–1852 · James Sylvester Clapp1801–1885

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 Churchill 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
bt. by Rev. Eben. Gay, July 9, 1769. Michael T. (Michael = Eunice Sylvester), b. at Scit. Aug. 23, 1795. m. in Hing. Dec. 5, 1824, Hannah Wilder, dau. of Crocker and Deborah (Jacob) Wilder. She was b. in Hing. May 2, 1799, and d. 5 March, 1871, aet. 72d yr. He d. 10 Nov. 1875, aet. 80 yrs. " Cooper." Ee- sided on High St. Ch.,— i. Michael, h. at Scit. Nov. 12, 1825, d.

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

Born in Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. Died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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