High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

Jerusha Cushing

3 Feb 1779 – 18 Sep 1862 · about 83 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Jerusha Cushing lived from 3 Feb 1779 to 18 Sep 1862, a span of about 83 years.

Theirs is one of 214 markers bearing the name Cushing in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 7relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave
Col David Cushing Sr1727–1800also hereMabel Gardner Cushing1739–1798also here
Jerusha Cushing

SiblingsCapt David Cushing Jr1754–1827 · Hosea Cushing1765–1836 · Charles Whiting Cushing1766–1828 · Christiana Cushing1775–1822 · Mabel Cushing Rouse1783–1853

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 on a child line in the Cushing family genealogy and may be a different person of the same name. Read it as a lead, not a certainty.

The entry, as printed
xv. Jerusha, Feb. 3, 1779, d. unm. 18 Sept. 1862, aet. 84th yr

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

Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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