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High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Mary Collier Whiting Cushing

17 Jun 1797 – 12 Oct 1879 · about 82 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Mary Collier Whiting Cushing lived from 17 Jun 1797 to 12 Oct 1879, a span of about 82 years.

Born a Whiting, 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
Davis Whiting1773–1833also hereAbigail Bowker Whiting1773–1833also here
Mary Collier Whiting Cushingm.Leonard Cushing1797–1881✓also here
Abigail Bowker Cushing Shute1825–1895also hereJoanna Cushing Burrell1828–1903also hereMary Davis Cushing Gardnerunknown–1895also here

SiblingsAbigail B. Whiting Sivret1799–1885 · Davis Whiting1801–1828

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave. A ✓ marks a tie the 1893 History of Hingham independently confirms.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

  • MarriedLeonard Cushing (Jan. 1, 1821)

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

The entry, as printed
i. Mary Collier, June 17, 1797. m. Jan. 1, 1821, Leonard Cushing

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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