High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts

William Hobart

4 Sep 1826 – 8 Dec 1907 · about 81 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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William Hobart lived from 4 Sep 1826 to 8 Dec 1907, a span of about 81 years.

Theirs is one of 19 markers bearing the name Hobart in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 1relative, as recorded on Find a Grave
William Hobartm.Sarah Ann Dunbar Hobart1827–1893also here

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

  • ParentsEbed Hobart
  • MarriedSarah Ann Dunbar (Dec. 26, 1855)
  • TradeFarmer

Line of descent, as the genealogy traces it: Ebed › Edmund › Peter › Samuel › Edmund.

Matched exact birth date in their own Hobart family entry (no. 51), corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed
51. William 8 (Ebed 7 Edmund 6 Peter w Samuel 3 Edmund w), b. in Hing. Sept. 4, 1826. m. Dec. 26, 1855, Sarah Ann Dunbar, a gr. dau. of Peleg Dunbar. She was b. at Scit. Dec. 20, 1827. « Farmer." Re- sides on Main, opp. Hobart St. Child, b. in Hing., — i. Ellen, Jan. 7, 1857 ; is m. and resides at Milton.

1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical), family entry no. 51. Read on archive.org ↗

Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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