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High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Sarah Jane Tower Souther

25 Feb 1834 – 24 Apr 1916 · about 82 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Sarah Jane Tower Souther lived from 25 Feb 1834 to 24 Apr 1916, a span of about 82 years.

Born a Tower, and known here by the name Souther. Theirs is one of 19 markers bearing the name Souther in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 12relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Sarah Jane Tower Southerm.Samuel Cushing Souther1824–1915 (m. 1851)also here
Nathan Tower Souther1852–1917Eleanor Souther1853–1854also hereEleanor Souther Burton1856–1908Samuel Cushing Souther Jr1857–1929Dodavah Lester Souther1859–1863also hereArthur Wilbur Souther1861–1863also hereSarah Jane Souther1862–1863also hereLester Wilbur Souther1865–1943also hereArthur Elmer Souther1867–1867also hereHenry Spaulding Souther1868–1947also hereLucy Jane Souther Lincoln1873–1958also 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 Souther 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
Tower, dau. of Thomas and Rebecca (Lam- 160 Souther. bert) Tower of Coh. She was b. at Coh. Feb. 25, 1834. "Rope- maker." Resides on Hobart St. (See " Hingham in the Civil War.") Ch., all b. in Hing., — i. Nathan Tower, Julv 11, 1852. ii. Eleanor, Aug. 23, 1853, d. 11 Sept. 1854. iii. Eleanor, Aug. 25, 1855. m. June 15, 1873, Thomas J. Burton of Salem, iv. Samuel Cushing,

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

Born in Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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