Claude Howell

Notes:

In the 1870 census, Henry B. Howell is single and a clergyman, age 28, living in Jerusalem, Yates Co., NY.

In 1880 Henry B. Howell is age 38, a farmer, and married to H. Adda, with three children, living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., NY.

I am assuming he is the same individual.

Henry married Helena Adelaide Bowen Abt 1872. Helena (daughter of Hezekiah Bowen and Calista Remington) was born 14 Oct 1843, NY; died 6 May 1933; was buried , Boxwood Cemetery, Medina, Orleans Co., NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In the 1900 census, Adda B. Howell is a widow age 56, living with her elderly parents in ridgeway, Orleans Co., NY. Her son, Fred B. Howell, age 25, is with them.

Notes:

In 1900 the family is living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., NY.

Hezekiah married Calista Remington 26 Oct 1842. Calista (daughter of Rufus Remington and Deborah Olmsted) was born 14 Jan 1820, Brutus, Cayuga Co., NY; died 6 Nov 1914; was buried , Boxwood Cemetery, Medina, Orleans Co., NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In her older years, sometime in 1910 or later when she was over 90 years old, Calista Remington Bowen wrote a bit of family history for her granddaughter. In it, she refers to her grandparents as Javez Remington and Penelope Mills Remington of Harvard, CT.

Excerpts:
"My memory carries me back to the days of our childhood with pleasure. Although the so-called pleasures and luxuries of to-day did not come to us, we perhaps enjoyed the rustic surrounding of our home equally as well. When spring came we enjoyed maple sugar time, the romps in the woods where the fire was kept burning all day and well into the night to boil the sap into syrup [?] when it was taken to the house and the [?]

Notes:

This was a double wedding with Calista's brother Rufus and his wife Elizabeth.

Notes:

In addition to these 6 children, there may have been a daughter named Lucy. (See History of the Simon Mills Family, p. 62)

Rufus married Deborah Olmsted 30 Jan 1811. Deborah (daughter of Ambrose Olmsted, Jr. and Mary Palmer) was born 22 Jan 1786; died 4 Sep 1834. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"My mother was twice married. Her first husband was Petit Baxter who died 1806 leaving her with a daughter, Lucy by name, 2 years old. Deborah (my mother) then went back home until she married my father, Rufus Remington, in 1810." (from Calista Remington Bowen's family stories)