Calista Remington

Female 1820 - 1914  (94 years)


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  • Name Calista Remington 
    Born 14 Jan 1820  Brutus, Cayuga Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Died 6 Nov 1914  [2
    Buried Boxwood Cemetery, Medina, Orleans Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I28148  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Rufus Remington,   b. 16 Sep 1780, Norfolk, Litchfield Co., CT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Nov 1845, Brutus, Cayuga Co., NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Mother Deborah Olmsted,   b. 22 Jan 1786,   d. 4 Sep 1834  (Age 48 years) 
    Married 30 Jan 1811  [3
    Family ID F10482  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hezekiah Bowen,   b. 1821, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1902  (Age 81 years) 
    Married 26 Oct 1842  [1
    Notes 
    • This was a double wedding with Calista's brother Rufus and his wife Elizabeth.
    Children 
     1. Helena Adelaide Bowen,   b. 14 Oct 1843, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 May 1933  (Age 89 years)
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F10489  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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 [?]

  • Sources 
    1. [S012736] History of the Simon Mills Family, Katie Mills, (1974), 63.

    2. [S013676] FindaGrave.com.

    3. [S012736] History of the Simon Mills Family, Katie Mills, (1974), 62.