Mary Tower

Female 1775 - 1872  (96 years)

Personal Information    |    Notes    |    Sources    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name Mary Tower 
    Birth 22 Oct 1775  [1] 
    Gender Female 
    Death 25 Apr 1872  Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Burial Historical Cemetery 3, Post Rd., Pawtuxet Village, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I04529  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Ichabod Tower,   b. 18 Feb 1739/40   d. 23 Apr 1826, Charlton, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Mary Pullen 
    Marriage 16 Oct 1768  Cumberland, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Family ID F04288  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Captain Peleg Remington, II,   b. 22 Apr 1764   d. Between 17 Jan and Apr 1838, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 9 Sep 1799  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Sally Remington,   b. 20 Feb 1801, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Captain Samuel Tower Remington,   b. 10 Mar 1806, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1880 (Age 74 years)
     3. Mary Tower Remington,   b. 8 Sep 1808, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 May 1890, Chelsea, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     4. Waitey Rhodes Remington,   b. 1 Jan 1810, Pawtuxet, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1864, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
    Family ID F01709  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • From the records of the First Baptist Church of Providence, RI: Mrs. Mary Remington April 25, 1805, B (baptized?) Nov. 16, 1806, L (letter?) W. of Peleg. To Pawtuxet church.

      In the 1850 Federal Census, Mary Remington is living with her son Samuel & family at Cranston, RI.

      Mary died at age 96 y 6 m 3 d.

      Providence Journal of Friday AM, 26 Apr 1872: "In Pawtuxet, April 25th, Mrs. Mary T. Remington, widow of the late Capt. Peleg Remington, in the 97th year of her age. Funeral will take place on Saturday, 27th inst., at 1 PM, from the Baptist Church, Pawtuxet. Relatives and friends are invited to attend."

  • Sources 
    1. [S012509] Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy. An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass., (Cambridge, MA: John Wilson & Son University Press, 1891), 130 & 206.
      Charlemagne Tower, compiler; "Tower Genealogy. An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass.,: (Cambridge: John Wilson & Son University Press, 1891), 130.

    2. [S012509] Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy. An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass., (Cambridge, MA: John Wilson & Son University Press, 1891), 206.

    3. [S012510] Dorothy Higson White, Descendants of Roger Williams Book I, Waterman & Winsor Lines, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1991), 153.

    4. [S012682] RI Death Index.

    5. [S012509] Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy. An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass., (Cambridge, MA: John Wilson & Son University Press, 1891), 130.