High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Sarah Elizabeth Corbett Cushing

8 Aug 1840 – 18 Jul 1925 · about 85 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Sarah Elizabeth Corbett Cushing lived from 8 Aug 1840 to 18 Jul 1925, a span of about 85 years.

Born a Corbett, and known here by the name Cushing. Theirs is one of 214 markers bearing the name Cushing in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 5relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
John Kuhn Corbett1806–1889Catharine D Melville Corbett1808–1857
Sarah Elizabeth Corbett Cushingm.Sidney Cushing1839–1912 (m. 1861)also here
Albert Lewis Cushing1865–1944also hereWaldo Cushing1868–1918also here

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 Cobb 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
Their dau. Edith, was b. Jan. 28, 1863. This fam. has removed to Maiden, v. Sarah Elizabeth, Aug. 8, 1840. m. Sept. 26, 1861, Sidney Gushing, vi. Waldo Flint, Jan. 4, 1843. (See " Hingham in the Civil War.") vii. Henry Dexter, Aug. 11, 1845. John, resides on Main, corner of Friend St. His w. was Mary Ann O'Brien. Hing. rec's furnish the foil, relating to their Ch.,— i. Mary

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

Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. Died in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

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