High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Mary Stowers Hersey Cushing

15 Sep 1818 – 1892 · about 74 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Mary Stowers Hersey Cushing lived from 15 Sep 1818 to 1892, a span of about 74 years.

Born a Hersey, 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 8relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Capt Seth S. Hersey1790–1878also hereBetsey Reed Hersey1796–1873also here
Mary Stowers Hersey Cushingm.Robert Cushing1819–1855also here
Robert Cushing Jr1842–1869also hereMarietta Cushing1851–1852also hereMary Adelaide Cushing1853–1854also here

SiblingsLydia Dyer Hersey Jacob1817–1885 · Henrietta Hersey Ripley1836–1868

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 birth date, found in the Cushing 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
5, 1819. m. Mary S. Hersey, dau. of Seth S. and Betsey (Reed) Hersey. She was b. in Hing. Sept. 15, 1818. Rob- ert d. 29 Dec. 1855, aet. 36th yr. Resided on Main St., So. Hing. Ch.,— i. Rohkrt, Jan. 17, 1842. m. Nov. 28, 1866, Martha E. Seiders of Boston, and d. 26 Sept. 1869, aet. 28th yr. (See " Hingham in the Civil War.") ii. Marietta, March 27, 1851, d. 17 March, 1852.

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

Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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