George and Anna resided on the Abbott homestead farm at Winslow for their entire lives. Here, their children were born.
Anna {Age 63 / Age 73; Widow}
is recorded on the 1870 & 1880 census
at Winslow, Kennebec, Maine.
Sketch of Mrs. Annie Abbot Gowen
(By her granddaughter, Ada Collins Howell)
Annie Abbott, daughter of Jacob and Dorcas (Libbey) Abbott, was born at Winslow, Maine, June 16, 1807.
She was not born with the proverbial "Silver spoon in her mouth," but, endowed with good health, ambitious and energetic, she came to be a very attractive young woman and was skilled and well trained in all the home accomplishments necessary to women of those days before the invention of machinery. Her hand-loom woven bed spreads, table covers, and cloth for clothing, were as much works of art as our modern hand embroidery, and called for quite as much skill and a deal more energy. Her motto "anything worth doing at all is worth doing well" was applied to all the work she undertook throughout her life time.
In February, 1828, while at Sanford, Maine, she was married to George Gowen, a young man whose fortune was in the making. This marriage was not the brilliant match some of her relatives had desired for her. However, it must have been one off mutual attraction. A year later, during the months of winter, with their household goods loaded on a sled and an ox in arms, they started the journey back to Winslow, Maine. This journey through the then unsettled country, was one of untold hardships and called for great fortitude and courage. They arrived at their destination in time to begin the spring work on the Abbott farm. Here, for nearly fifty years, she found her life work with its joys and sorrows.
Mr. and Mrs. Gowen were the parents of nine children, seven of whom reached maturity. Their names follow: William Lyman, Abigail More, Emily A., Olive Augusta, Celestia A., George F., and Libby.
Mrs. Gowen was naturally thrifty, she could not tolerate waste or extravagance and she found ample scope for the exercise of her ingenuity in supplying the necessities of the family. For many years the only means of cooking food was a large brick oven and open fireplace, yet the appetizing and delicious food that came from this source was remembered and longed for, by members of this family many years after.
The apple orchard in connection with this home was not the least of its attractions. There were great trees whose branches furnished fruit for three geenarations and offered many tempting places of concealment for one to climb among them and play truant.
Naturally, in a family in those days, when the services of a trained nurse were unknown, there would be many occasions that demanded skill and knowledge in caring for the sick. Especially among the members of her own family, was the belief most implicit that "mother" could find treatment that would relieve any illness. On two occasions, after reaching the age of fifty years, she journeyed to Aroostook county, Maine, a distance of 200 mile, by stage, in the winter months to nurse a daughter who was ill. It was on her last visit there in February, 1864, that her husband was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia and died in less than a week.
This was a severe blow to her, for her grief was intensified by the ever present thought that if she had been with him her nursing and care might have saved his life.
With two young sons, neither of them old enough to render her much assistance, she bravely took up the burden of life, believing that an all wise Heavenly Father ruled for the best.
She had a deeply religious nature and was a member of the Baptist church earlier in life, but she never had any sympathy with the tenets of a narrow religious faith. "When I lived at China Pond," she used to say, "I always told my friends that I could see farther that they did for I could see clear across the pond," meaning a spiritual vision of faith and hope.
Annie Abbott Gowen, whose life was one of service to others, passed from this life at Albion, Maine, in February, 1888, at the age of eighty years.
Anna {Age 63 / Age 73; Widow}
is recorded on the 1870 & 1880 census
at Winslow, Kennebec, Maine.
Sketch of Mrs. Annie Abbot Gowen
(By her granddaughter, Ada Collins Howell)
Annie Abbott, daughter of Jacob and Dorcas (Libbey) Abbott, was born at Winslow, Maine, June 16, 1807.
She was not born with the proverbial "Silver spoon in her mouth," but, endowed with good health, ambitious and energetic, she came to be a very attractive young woman and was skilled and well trained in all the home accomplishments necessary to women of those days before the invention of machinery. Her hand-loom woven bed spreads, table covers, and cloth for clothing, were as much works of art as our modern hand embroidery, and called for quite as much skill and a deal more energy. Her motto "anything worth doing at all is worth doing well" was applied to all the work she undertook throughout her life time.
In February, 1828, while at Sanford, Maine, she was married to George Gowen, a young man whose fortune was in the making. This marriage was not the brilliant match some of her relatives had desired for her. However, it must have been one off mutual attraction. A year later, during the months of winter, with their household goods loaded on a sled and an ox in arms, they started the journey back to Winslow, Maine. This journey through the then unsettled country, was one of untold hardships and called for great fortitude and courage. They arrived at their destination in time to begin the spring work on the Abbott farm. Here, for nearly fifty years, she found her life work with its joys and sorrows.
Mr. and Mrs. Gowen were the parents of nine children, seven of whom reached maturity. Their names follow: William Lyman, Abigail More, Emily A., Olive Augusta, Celestia A., George F., and Libby.
Mrs. Gowen was naturally thrifty, she could not tolerate waste or extravagance and she found ample scope for the exercise of her ingenuity in supplying the necessities of the family. For many years the only means of cooking food was a large brick oven and open fireplace, yet the appetizing and delicious food that came from this source was remembered and longed for, by members of this family many years after.
The apple orchard in connection with this home was not the least of its attractions. There were great trees whose branches furnished fruit for three geenarations and offered many tempting places of concealment for one to climb among them and play truant.
Naturally, in a family in those days, when the services of a trained nurse were unknown, there would be many occasions that demanded skill and knowledge in caring for the sick. Especially among the members of her own family, was the belief most implicit that "mother" could find treatment that would relieve any illness. On two occasions, after reaching the age of fifty years, she journeyed to Aroostook county, Maine, a distance of 200 mile, by stage, in the winter months to nurse a daughter who was ill. It was on her last visit there in February, 1864, that her husband was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia and died in less than a week.
This was a severe blow to her, for her grief was intensified by the ever present thought that if she had been with him her nursing and care might have saved his life.
With two young sons, neither of them old enough to render her much assistance, she bravely took up the burden of life, believing that an all wise Heavenly Father ruled for the best.
She had a deeply religious nature and was a member of the Baptist church earlier in life, but she never had any sympathy with the tenets of a narrow religious faith. "When I lived at China Pond," she used to say, "I always told my friends that I could see farther that they did for I could see clear across the pond," meaning a spiritual vision of faith and hope.
Annie Abbott Gowen, whose life was one of service to others, passed from this life at Albion, Maine, in February, 1888, at the age of eighty years.
George and Anna resided on the Abbott homestead farm at Winslow for their entire lives. Here, their children were born.
Anna {Age 63 / Age 73; Widow}
is recorded on the 1870 & 1880 census
at Winslow, Kennebec, Maine.
Sketch of Mrs. Annie Abbot Gowen
(By her granddaughter, Ada Collins Howell)
Annie Abbott, daughter of Jacob and Dorcas (Libbey) Abbott, was born at Winslow, Maine, June 16, 1807.
She was not born with the proverbial "Silver spoon in her mouth," but, endowed with good health, ambitious and energetic, she came to be a very attractive young woman and was skilled and well trained in all the home accomplishments necessary to women of those days before the invention of machinery. Her hand-loom woven bed spreads, table covers, and cloth for clothing, were as much works of art as our modern hand embroidery, and called for quite as much skill and a deal more energy. Her motto "anything worth doing at all is worth doing well" was applied to all the work she undertook throughout her life time.
In February, 1828, while at Sanford, Maine, she was married to George Gowen, a young man whose fortune was in the making. This marriage was not the brilliant match some of her relatives had desired for her. However, it must have been one off mutual attraction. A year later, during the months of winter, with their household goods loaded on a sled and an ox in arms, they started the journey back to Winslow, Maine. This journey through the then unsettled country, was one of untold hardships and called for great fortitude and courage. They arrived at their destination in time to begin the spring work on the Abbott farm. Here, for nearly fifty years, she found her life work with its joys and sorrows.
Mr. and Mrs. Gowen were the parents of nine children, seven of whom reached maturity. Their names follow: William Lyman, Abigail More, Emily A., Olive Augusta, Celestia A., George F., and Libby.
Mrs. Gowen was naturally thrifty, she could not tolerate waste or extravagance and she found ample scope for the exercise of her ingenuity in supplying the necessities of the family. For many years the only means of cooking food was a large brick oven and open fireplace, yet the appetizing and delicious food that came from this source was remembered and longed for, by members of this family many years after.
The apple orchard in connection with this home was not the least of its attractions. There were great trees whose branches furnished fruit for three geenarations and offered many tempting places of concealment for one to climb among them and play truant.
Naturally, in a family in those days, when the services of a trained nurse were unknown, there would be many occasions that demanded skill and knowledge in caring for the sick. Especially among the members of her own family, was the belief most implicit that "mother" could find treatment that would relieve any illness. On two occasions, after reaching the age of fifty years, she journeyed to Aroostook county, Maine, a distance of 200 mile, by stage, in the winter months to nurse a daughter who was ill. It was on her last visit there in February, 1864, that her husband was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia and died in less than a week.
This was a severe blow to her, for her grief was intensified by the ever present thought that if she had been with him her nursing and care might have saved his life.
With two young sons, neither of them old enough to render her much assistance, she bravely took up the burden of life, believing that an all wise Heavenly Father ruled for the best.
She had a deeply religious nature and was a member of the Baptist church earlier in life, but she never had any sympathy with the tenets of a narrow religious faith. "When I lived at China Pond," she used to say, "I always told my friends that I could see farther that they did for I could see clear across the pond," meaning a spiritual vision of faith and hope.
Annie Abbott Gowen, whose life was one of service to others, passed from this life at Albion, Maine, in February, 1888, at the age of eighty years.
Anna {Age 63 / Age 73; Widow}
is recorded on the 1870 & 1880 census
at Winslow, Kennebec, Maine.
Sketch of Mrs. Annie Abbot Gowen
(By her granddaughter, Ada Collins Howell)
Annie Abbott, daughter of Jacob and Dorcas (Libbey) Abbott, was born at Winslow, Maine, June 16, 1807.
She was not born with the proverbial "Silver spoon in her mouth," but, endowed with good health, ambitious and energetic, she came to be a very attractive young woman and was skilled and well trained in all the home accomplishments necessary to women of those days before the invention of machinery. Her hand-loom woven bed spreads, table covers, and cloth for clothing, were as much works of art as our modern hand embroidery, and called for quite as much skill and a deal more energy. Her motto "anything worth doing at all is worth doing well" was applied to all the work she undertook throughout her life time.
In February, 1828, while at Sanford, Maine, she was married to George Gowen, a young man whose fortune was in the making. This marriage was not the brilliant match some of her relatives had desired for her. However, it must have been one off mutual attraction. A year later, during the months of winter, with their household goods loaded on a sled and an ox in arms, they started the journey back to Winslow, Maine. This journey through the then unsettled country, was one of untold hardships and called for great fortitude and courage. They arrived at their destination in time to begin the spring work on the Abbott farm. Here, for nearly fifty years, she found her life work with its joys and sorrows.
Mr. and Mrs. Gowen were the parents of nine children, seven of whom reached maturity. Their names follow: William Lyman, Abigail More, Emily A., Olive Augusta, Celestia A., George F., and Libby.
Mrs. Gowen was naturally thrifty, she could not tolerate waste or extravagance and she found ample scope for the exercise of her ingenuity in supplying the necessities of the family. For many years the only means of cooking food was a large brick oven and open fireplace, yet the appetizing and delicious food that came from this source was remembered and longed for, by members of this family many years after.
The apple orchard in connection with this home was not the least of its attractions. There were great trees whose branches furnished fruit for three geenarations and offered many tempting places of concealment for one to climb among them and play truant.
Naturally, in a family in those days, when the services of a trained nurse were unknown, there would be many occasions that demanded skill and knowledge in caring for the sick. Especially among the members of her own family, was the belief most implicit that "mother" could find treatment that would relieve any illness. On two occasions, after reaching the age of fifty years, she journeyed to Aroostook county, Maine, a distance of 200 mile, by stage, in the winter months to nurse a daughter who was ill. It was on her last visit there in February, 1864, that her husband was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia and died in less than a week.
This was a severe blow to her, for her grief was intensified by the ever present thought that if she had been with him her nursing and care might have saved his life.
With two young sons, neither of them old enough to render her much assistance, she bravely took up the burden of life, believing that an all wise Heavenly Father ruled for the best.
She had a deeply religious nature and was a member of the Baptist church earlier in life, but she never had any sympathy with the tenets of a narrow religious faith. "When I lived at China Pond," she used to say, "I always told my friends that I could see farther that they did for I could see clear across the pond," meaning a spiritual vision of faith and hope.
Annie Abbott Gowen, whose life was one of service to others, passed from this life at Albion, Maine, in February, 1888, at the age of eighty years.
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ANNA ABBOTT GOWEN
June 16, 1807 - February 26, 1887
wife of George Gowen
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