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 [?]
1820 - 1914 (94 years)
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