Mary Hovey was born in Windham (later Hampton), Windham County, Connecticut.
Mary was buried in Connecticut Corners Cemetery, where her son William Flint and his wife Patty Randall were buried. The cemetery is located on land owned in 2001 by Stanley Chamberlain, off Old Braintree Hill Road "below the original old road that used to go by Chamberlain's barn to the Avery Thresher house." About 1930 Perkins Flint was returning from a fox hunt through those woods, when he came across a gravestone protruding from the brush, which he found to be that of Sammy Vinton, an eleven-year-old grandson of William Flint, Perkins' great grandfather. Perkins and his brother Elijah found pieces of William's gravestone, and they asked an older Braintree resident, Lester Flint, about the neglected cemetery. Lester told them that when he was a young man, he worked for the landowner, Russell Flint, and Russell had him mow the cemetery, which had about 18 gravestones. In the intervening years, it had grown to brush and trees, and during a logging operation, trees were allowed to fall on the burial plot, smashing most of the headstones. By using what pieces of the headstone they could find and by consulting Bass's "History of Braintree," they obtained a record of William Flint. To perpetuate his memory and to observe the final resting place of Mary and her son William who went to Braintree in 1803, and her daughter-in-law Patty (Randall) Flint, a group of their descendants donated money for a 1200-pound marker, inscribed "Mary Hovey, widow of Nathaniel Flint, Jr., 1726 - 1807, settled in Braintree in 1803 with 4 of her 13 children, born in Conn. Son Wm, 1769-1850. Patty Randall, his wife, 1772-1842. Erected Oct 1936." Lynnet Auker Keihl located the tiny cemetery which now has two stones, in a clearing of a farmer's wooded land.