High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Spencer Binney Tower

18 Nov 1823 – 26 May 1841 · about 18 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Spencer Binney Tower lived from 18 Nov 1823 to 26 May 1841, a span of about 18 years.

Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 6relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Moses Tower1785–1862also hereMary Binney Tower1790–1825also here
Spencer Binney Tower

SiblingsMary Jones Tower Allen1810–1883 · Moses Binney Tower1814–1898 · John Wesley Tower1821–1893

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

Matched exact birth date on a child line in the Tower family genealogy, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed
v. Spencer Binney, Nov. 18, 1823, d. in Hing. 26 May, 1841, aet. 17 yrs. Child, b. in Hing., by w. Abigail, — vi. Abner Jones, Jan. 19, 1827, d. 22 May, 1828

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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