Olive Cushing (Fearing) Whiting (1819 - 1850)

Born 4 Mar 1819 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Shurtleff Whiting — married 23 Nov 1839 (to 22 Aug 1850) in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Died 22 Aug 1850 at age 31 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Olive Cushing was born in 1819. She was the daughter of Ezekiel Fearing and Anna Cushing.^[1][2]

Olive married Benjamin S. Whiting.^[3][4] Children:

1. Webster Adams
2. Benjamin Shurtleff
3. Olive Ann

1850 United States Census - Hingham Plymouth, Massachusetts^[5]

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Benjn S Whiting	Head	Male	35	Massachusetts
Olive C Whiting	Wife	Female	31	Massachusetts
Webster A Whiting	Son	Male	8	Massachusetts
Benjn S Whiting	Son	Male	7	Massachusetts
Olive A Whiting	Daughter	Female	2	Massachusetts
Judith W Fearing	Cousin-in-law	Female	41	Massachusetts

She passed away in 1850.^[3] She is buried at High Street Cemetery in Hingham.^[6]

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHX7-CYD : 13 July 2016), Olive Cushing Fearing, 04 Mar 1819; citing Birth, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
2. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol , p.223
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol III, p.302
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHR2-1Y9 : 13 July 2016), Benjamin S. Whiting and Olive C. Fearing, 23 Nov 1839; citing Marriage, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 423,520.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD9Q-MQB : 22 December 2020), Benjn S Whiting, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Olive Cushing Fearing Whiting on Find A Grave: Memorial #81972746 retrieved 1/24/19

Bibliography

• History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas T Bouvé; Edward Tracy Bouvé; John Davis Long; Walter Lincoln Bouvé; Francis Henry Lincoln; George Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles Winfield Scott Seymour; Hingham (Mass.). (1893). Pub. by the town.