Betsy CUSHING

1 Oct 1774 - 9 Jan 1854

• BIRTH: 1 Oct 1774, Hingham, Plymouth, MA
• DEATH: 9 Jan 1854, Fenner, Madison, NY
• BURIAL: Jan 1854, Needham Cemetery, Fenner, Madison, NY

• MARRIAGE: 26 Jan 1797, Hingham, Plymouth, MA

1.  Betsy NEEDHAM
2. +John NEEDHAM
3. +Bela C. NEEDHAM
4.  Olivia NEEDHAM
5. +George William NEEDHAM
6.  Peleg V. NEEDHAM
7.  Juliette NEEDHAM

                                         _Matthew B. CUSHING _+
                     _Hezekiah CUSHING _|
                    |                   |_Deborah JACOB ______+
 _Thomas CUSHING ___|
|                   |                    _Thomas JONES _______+
|                   |_Lydia JONES ______|
|                                       |_Catherine CASWELL __
|
|--Betsy CUSHING 
|
|                                        _Benjamin TURNER ____+
|                    _Benjamin TURNER __|
|                   |                   |_Elizabeth HAWKINS __
|_Elizabeth TURNER _|
                    |                    _Charles TURNER _____+
                    |_Mercy TURNER _____|
                                        |_Mercy CURTIS _______+

[54] (Note that Fenner, NY is in modern-day Madison County, which was created
21 March 1806 from Chenango County.)

"The Genealogy of the Cushing Family "
(An account of the Ancestors and Descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638)
James Cushing
The Perrault Printing Co - Montreal, 1905
First Edition, 1877, by Lemuel Cushing, p. 109

"History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts"
George Lincoln, et. al., Hingham, MA; 1893, p. 165
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mahingha/history/contents.html

"History of Chenango and Madison Counties, NY...1784-1880"
James H. Smith
D. Mason & Co, Syracuse, NY 1880, pp. 694-699

Buried at Needham Cemetery, Town of Fenner, Madison County, NY; see:
"Cemetery Inscriptions of Madison County, NY", Vol 1
Mary K. Meyer and Joyce C. Scott
Willow Bend Books, Westminster, Maryland, 1997
ISBN: 1-58549-706-1
Updated at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyccazen/Cemeteries/Fenner/NeedhamCem.html
"Needham, Betsey Cushing, wife of John Needham, died January __, 1854, age 79 years."

Needham Lineage and Genealogical Notes
Previously unpublished; 1962
Hawley Vincent Needham, Kathryne Lowe Needham Shepherd

"Genealogy of the Needham Family"
Thomas Cushing, M.D.

Needham Family Genealogical Notes
Unpublished work; 1998
Virginia Joy Chism Nichols
Record #34