John Thomas Shaw

John married Robin Cleary Abt 1970. [Group Sheet]

John married Unknown Abt 1980. [Group Sheet]

1. Scott Shaw was born Abt 1981.

John married Linda Unknown Abt 2000. [Group Sheet]

1. Casey Shaw was born Abt 1996.

Richard married Barbara Louise Remington 25 Aug 1945, Danielson, CT. Barbara (daughter of John Francis Remington and Edith Mae Wright) was born 25 Jan 1915, RI; died 26 May 2002, West Warwick, RI; was buried , Woodland Cemetery, Coventry, RI. [Group Sheet]

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I have a copy of her DAR application, and a copy of her online obituary from ProJo.com.

Barbara was always good at keeping in touch. She has been my inspiration to work on the family tree and finally to join DAR.

Her gravestone has been photographed.

Thomas — Dorothy Pavey. [Group Sheet]

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I have a copy of his death certificate from the State of Rhode Island. Also, his gravestone has been photographed.

John married Edith Mae Wright 4 Feb 1911, Coventry, Kent Co., RI. Edith (daughter of John Otis Thurston and Mary Elizabeth McNeil) was born 9 Oct 1893, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI; died 21 Apr 1951, Providence, Providence Co., RI; was buried , Woodland Cemetery, Coventry, RI. [Group Sheet]

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In the Federal Census of 1900, Edith Wright, b Oct 1894, is age 5 (boarder, at school), living in Coventry, RI, with Jerome & Mary Laselle.

This couple is Jerome Laselle (sometimes Lasalle) born c 1856, who md Mary Randall Lindoll 1 June 1891 in Providence (familysearch.org).

In the Federal census of 1910, Edith Wright is age 16 "daughter," living in Coventy with Mary Lasalle 52 and Lydia Harvey 73 (boarder).

I have a copy of her death certificate from the State of Rhode Island. Also, her gravestone has been photographed.

Edith Mae Remington died at age 57 y 6 m 12 d.

Notes:

I have a copy of his birth certificate from Warwick, RI (Warwick Births, 1850 - 1882, Vol. 2, p. 5); a copy of his official marriage record from the RI State Offices in Providence, as well as the original page from the Town of Coventry marriage record book, p. 89; and his death certificate from Cranston, RI.

The 1880 census lists John A. Remington as age 12 at that time. I have a copy of the page from the census showing his family.

We have a nice portrait of John Allen dressed in his best suit, with a boutonnierre pinned to his right lapel. Perhaps it was a graduation picture, or even a wedding picture, as he was married quite young the first time -- not yet nineteen. His brown hair is neatly parted in the center and combed with a slight wave to either side. He has light eyes, like his father's, and fine regular features in an oval face. I definitely see a bit of his looks in our family, especially my uncles and my dad's cousins. We never knew much about my Great-grandfather Remington; things were left unsaid. His first wife died young of consumption, after only 1 1/2 years of marriage, which must have brought him much grief. Perhaps he took up drinking to cope with the sorrow, and then couldn't get away from it, even after marrying Angeretta, with whom he had two fine sons. For some reason they separated. He died so young, only 28 years old, of some form of cancer, according to the death certificate. I guess the whole story will never be known, so we've left it in God's hands.

John married Angeretta Williams WHITFORD 10 Nov 1891, Coventry, Kent Co., RI. Angeretta (daughter of Charles Carmi WHITFORD and Harty Potter JOHNSON) was born 10 Nov 1870, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI; died 12 Oct 1958, Warwick, Kent Co., RI; was buried , Woodland Cemetery, Coventry, RI. [Group Sheet]

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I have a photocopy of her original birth record in the official Book of Births for 1870 in the Town of West Greenwich, p. 20; a copy of the original marriage record from the official Book of Marriages for 1891 in the Town of Coventry, p. 89; a copy of the marriage certificate from the State Offices at Providence, RI; a copy of her death certificate from the State of Rhode Island; and a copy of the newspaper obituary. Her gravestone has been photographed.

Angeretta was a midwife.

I remember occasionally going to visit my Great-grandma Remington in a house on Knotty Oak Road in Coventry, RI, where she lived with "Aunt Ollie and Uncle Allen," who were actually my great aunt -- Angeretta's sister -- and her husband, Allen Hopkins. The older folks would sit around the living room and talk, while we children would sometimes sit and listen, and sometimes amuse ourselves by walking around -- but never upstairs, as I recall. There was a square metal grate in the floor between the living room and kitchen, through which the heat would blow from the basement furnace. Being a small child, I had to take a rather large step to walk, or rather jump, over this grate, and I was somehow worried that I might fall through!

Great-grandma Remington came to stay overnight with us once, and she slept in the room next to mine. When she was in the hospital with her final illness, I was allowed to go up to her hospital room to see her one last time. I was seven years old.

Aunt Ollie lived quite a few years longer, and died when I was sixteen. I have memories of going to her funeral. But the best memories are of the three generations of family sitting around that comfortable living room, where the older folks would talk in their gentle and pleasant voices.

John married Mary Elizabeth McNeil 1893. Mary (daughter of John McNeil and Josephine Unknown) was born Abt 1875, CT; died 1966; was buried , Greenville Cemetery, Smith Ave., Smithfield, RI. [Group Sheet]

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Family information from my cousin Marilyn tells me that Mary was not married, and the Thurston connection was conjecture from her mother.