Martha "Mattie" Adams Remington

Notes:

(If you use any portion of these notes, please give source credit to Lois Sorensen, Remington family researcher and compiler, and to other sources as noted herein.)

Martha Adams Remington was named after her paternal grandmother, Martha "Pattey" Adams.

Martha ran a hotel called the Mitchell Hotel or Piney Wood Hotel. See notes below.

"In this large lot is also buried a woman of tremendous energy with a great and kindly heart. Back in Thomasville's great winter resort days, Martha Adams Remington, known then to Thomasville and to the world as "Mrs. Bowers" operated the Piney Woods Hotel in all of the sparkling glory at a time when Akin, SC, St. Augustine, FL, and Thomasville, GA were the great winter resorts of the Atlantic Seaboard. Miami, FL, then wasn't even a whisper as a winter resort. Martha Adams Remington married twice, first to Mr. Davies, and after his death to Dr. Peter S. Bower. Mrs. Bower operated the great hotel while her husband, Dr. Bower, ministered to the guests who had come down from the North on account of ailing health. And so it is fitting that Mrs. Bower, in her day one of the grand ladies of the South, should be buried in the Old Cemetery with gallant Confederate soldiers, and near the grave of her kindly husband, Dr. Peter S. Bower." (THE OLD CEMETERY by James B. Burch, from Thomasville Cultural Centers)

From the Georgia Genweb site, cemetery records (somewhat edited) from The Old Cemetery, Thomasville: Theodosius B. Davies, 15 June 1825 - 28 Jan 1859, h/o Martha Adams Remington, d/o Col. Edward Remington. Martha is said to be the first white child to have been born in this city after the town was formally incorporated. Martha Adams Remington Davies later married Dr. P. S. Bower. Dr. Bower was born 4 Dec 1833 died 19 Dec 1892.

Peter Shively Bower, 4 Dec 1833 - 19 Dec 1897 CSA Dr. h/o Martha Adams Bower, 29 July 1831 - 5 May 1898; mn Remington

Martha married Theodosius Bartow Davies 3 May 1848, Thomasville, GA. Theodosius (son of William Davies and Sarah Grant Land) was born 15 Jun 1825, Savannah, Chatham Co., GA; died 28 Jan 1859, Thomasville, GA; was buried , Old Cemetery, Thomasville, Thomas Co., GA. [Group Sheet]

Martha married Peter Shively Bower Aft 28 Jan 1859. Peter was born 4 Dec 1833; died 19 Dec 1897, Thomasville, GA; was buried , The Old Cemetery, Thomasville, GA. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married Francis "Frank" Jones Winn 7 Jun 1866, GA. Francis died 12 Jun 1907; was buried , Old Cemetery, Thomasville, Thomas Co., GA. [Group Sheet]

Harriet — Frank Wheeler Canfield. [Group Sheet]