High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Mary Russell Jacob
1 Apr 1641 – 2 Oct 1691 · about 50 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Mary Russell Jacob lived from 1 Apr 1641 to 2 Oct 1691, a span of about 50 years.
Born a Russell, and known here by the name Jacob. Theirs is one of 28 markers bearing the name Jacob in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
View family network 14relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsSamuel Russell1640–1676 · Elizabeth Russell Adams1643–1712
Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. Distances are to relatives whose graves are also recorded here.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Matched matching birth and death dates in the Humphrey family entry of the 1893 History of Hingham, corroborated by a relative's name.
The entry, as printed
3, 1661, Mary, dau. of George and Jane Russell. She was bt. in Hing. Apr. 1, 1641, and d. 2 Oct. 1691, aet. 50 yrs. He d. 18 Sept. 1693, set., as his gravestone in the High Street Cemetery says, " about 63 yrs." Resided on Main St., near the meeting-house of the sec. parish, So. Hing. John was an active business man ; was one of the proprietors among whom the common lands were divided; s
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
Where this was, today
The 1893 record places this person at Main St. in Hingham. Today that is Main Street (Route 228). Main Street, today Route 228, runs from Hingham Harbour south through the Liberty Plain district to South Hingham. The old South Hingham families lived along its southern stretch, the road High Street Cemetery faces. It is a short walk from the cemetery.
The street still carries the name; the exact house is not pinned, so read this as the block, not a doorstep.
The inscription
Here lyes ye body of Mary Jacob ye wife of John Jacob Aged 52 years died October 2 1691
Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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