Imogene was born in 1839.1 Imogene's father was Abel Cushing and her mother was Sabina Wade. Her paternal grandparents were James Cushing and Deborah Washburn. She had a brother named Eugene. She was the younger of the two children. She had a half-brother named George A.. She died at the age of 40 in 1879 in Bridgewater.1