Our Mission to Boston Massachusetts : High St Cemetery Hingham, MA - Many of Glen Parker's Ancestors Buried Here - John Tower Sr and Samuel Lincoln Great-Grandparents

Glen Parker's 9th Great-Grandfather

John Tower Sr. 14 May 1609 – 13 February 1701 - LC6G-Q6T

John was baptized in May, 1609 in Hingham, England.
John left England and arrived in Massachusetts on June 1, 1637 and married Margaret Ibrook on February 13, 1638 in Charlestown.

He was one of the proprietors of Hingham, Massachusetts where he settled on Bachelor's Row (now Main Street). He initially started out with three acres of land and through the years purchased more acreage. He had also purchased some acres in Cohasset (then part of Hingham).
In 1645 he was one of the seven men chosen to oversee the prudential affairs of the town.
Some of the occupations that he was listed as having been: farmer, planter, way-warden, constable, and fence-viewer.
In 1675, during King Philip’s War, John was allowed to fortify his house with a garrison.

His house, today known as the Tower Homestead, near Tower Brook, Tower’s Bridge, and Tower Brook Road, still stands. [Although, according to William R. Cutter’s Genealogical and Personal Memoirs published in 1908: “Three of his sons built houses on this lot also, and some of the lands have remained in the possession of descendants to the present time. The old house was torn down soon after 1800.”]

John Tower Sr. (1609–1701) | Person | Family Tree | FamilySearch

Tower Homestead in 1664 - Address 528 Main Street, Hingham Ma.

High Street Cemetery Hingham, MA

9th GG-John Tower Sr. 14 May 1609 – 13 February 1701 LC6G-Q6T - High St Cemetery Hingham

George Warren Tower 22 October 1846 – 29 October 1920 • MJQ2-PHY

8th Cousin- John Ibrook Tower 10 February 1898 – 4 April 1939 • L6M2-B5G

6th Cousin - Frank Leonard Cross 9 December 1892 – 17 April 1969 • GM51-N73

5th Cousin - Moses Binney Tower II 26 April 1814 – 29 November 1898 • L4JK-NNY

1st cousin's husband- Malachi Tower -4 March 1737 – 5 April 1806 • LC8G-FQM

6th cousin to Glen- William Tower

18 April 1808 – 11 April 1879 • LZK6-BZ3

*This little grave marker "Baby Lou" seemed a bit out of place in this plot, but we took a picture and Glen did some research when he got back to the computer. It turned out that she was buried near her grandparents, but had never been connected to her own family or sealed to her parents! Babies are often forgotten and missed in family history records. Bev felt that Baby Lou's mother had waited long enough to get this baby sealed to her! She did the proxy sealing a few days later while helping at the temple.
This is only one example of how we are led to find other family members we know not of...
This has been an amazing blessing we have received over and over on this mission to New England.