High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Olive Cushing Fearing Whiting
4 Mar 1819 – 22 Aug 1850 · about 31 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Olive Cushing Fearing Whiting lived from 4 Mar 1819 to 22 Aug 1850, a span of about 31 years.
Born a Fearing, and known here by the name Whiting. Theirs is one of 27 markers bearing the name Whiting in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
View family network 5relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
SiblingsSarah Gilkey Fearing Whiting1814–1894 · Mary Adams Fearing Tower1817–1838 · Hannah Lincoln Fearing Whiting1825–1910
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 death date, found in the Whiton 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
York, or Newark, N. J. ix. Benjamin Shuktleff, March 22, 1815. m. Olive C. Fearing, who d. 22 Aug. 1850, aet. 31 yrs. (See " Hingham in the Civil War.") x. Davis Jacob, Nov. 15, 1816. Resides at Chicago, 111. xi. Julia Ann Bowker, Feb. 7, 1820. ru. William Brown of Ab'n. 48. Joseph J.6 (Amasa5 Daniel4 Samuel3 James21), b. in Hing. Dec. 29, 1778. m. first, Ann Eliza Crane.
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
The inscription
Wife of Benjamin S Whiton.
Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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