Nancy Remond

Nancy, Cecelia, Maritcha, Sarah and Caroline Remond were all active abolitionists and were members of the Salem Women’s Anti Slavery Society and the Massachusetts Women’s Antislavery Society. When the two youngest sisters were in high school, they were expelled. Salem schools were going to be segregated. The family moved to Newport Rhode Island so that Sarah and Caroline could continue their educations. Sarah went on to be a lecturer, like her brother Charles. Eventually she moved to London and studied medicine there. Moving to Italy, she married and practiced medicine. She died in 1894 and was buried in Rome. The other sisters followed in their parents’ footsteps and pursued catering and hairdressing as well as wig making Susan and Cecilia both appear in the listings for the gravesite of their parents.

Sources Consulted:

• Article: The Remonds of Salem Massachusetts: A Nineteenth Century Family Revisited. Dorothy Burnett Porter, For the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society: Worcester, Massachusetts 1985.
• Internet:
  • Cemeteryfind.com: Remond Burial Records, Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts.
  • FindaGrave.com /memorial/59843636/john_remond
  • HowOld.com Caroline Remond Putnam Biography
  • Noblenet.org/salem/wiki/index.php? title=Remond John& oldid=10688
  • Phillips Library Finding Aids: Remond Family Papers: 1823-1869, undated, pem.org/visit/library.
  • Wikipedia.org/w/index php? title=Caroline_Remond_Putnam &oldid.1047994427
  • Wikipedia.org/w/index php? title=Charles_Lenox_Remond &oldid. 1071128971
  • Wikipedia.org/w/index php? title=Sarah Parker Remond &oldid. 1068399573.