Lewis REMER & Rachael RIGGS

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             Husband: Lewis REMER (1 2 3)

                Born: 1785 in Derby, New Haven, CT (4 5)
             Married:
                Died: 25 DEC 1841 (6 7)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (8 9 10)
              Father: REMER
              Mother: >>>
             Spouses:

                Wife: Rachael RIGGS (11)

                Born: 20 JAN 1786 (12 13 14 15)
                Died: 25 DEC 1869 (16 17)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (18 19 20)
              Father: Joseph RIGGS
              Mother: Elizabeth JOHNSON
             Spouses:

Children

01               (M): Joseph Harvey REMER (21 22 23 24 25)
                Born: l 1812 (26)
                Died: 08 JAN 1884 (27)
             Spouses: Lucy Maria CANFIELD

02               (M): Edward C. REMER (28)
                Born: l 1820 (29)
                Died:
             Spouses:

03               (F): Theodosia REMER
                Born:
                Died: 07 NOV 1895 (30)
             Spouses: GOODMAN

Footnotes

Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 639.
... shoemaker and carried on the manufacture of shoes for years at Up Town ... a leading man in the community, and wielded a strong moral and religious influence in the Congregational church ... No man was more devoted to the sick or suffering than he ...
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 639.
Ibid., 812.
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
Capt Lewis Remer | died | Dec 25 1841 | ae 56 yrs.
No mortal woes
Can reach the peaceful sleeper here
While angels watch his soft repose.

Rachel Remer his wife | died Dec 25 1869 ae 84 yrs.
Brookside Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem13274.html.]
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 539.
John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 18.
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 812.
Capt Lewis Remer | died | Dec 25 1841 | ae 56 yrs.
No mortal woes
Can reach the peaceful sleeper here
While angels watch his soft repose.

Rachel Remer his wife | died Dec 25 1869 ae 84 yrs.
Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem13275.html.]
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 259.
Remer, Joseph H. - No other markings.
Remer, Lucy Maria, wife of Joseph H., died Oct. 20, 1876, age 63.

[http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan259.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 151-2.
... There was a rude park 'where three roads meet' near (now 1879) Joseph H. Remeer's residence, called the Commons ...
Ibid., 812.
Joseph H. Remer |
Lucy Maria his wife | died Oct 20 1876 68 yrs.
1850 Derby Census.
Shoemaker.
1880 Derby Census.
Old Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem26120.html.]
Ibid.
[http://oxfordpast.net/cem26120.html.]
1850 Derby Census.
Copperworker.

[Next to Joseph H. Remer.]
Ibid.
1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Elm St. Cemetery, 212.
[http://oxfordpast.net/elmstcemscan212.html.]

Revised: 04-Dec-08


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