His mother was Mary Shepard Jewett who before her marriage was of the early teachers in Hartland village and while her children small she taught them and others in her own home She was daughter of a Revolutionary soldier David Hale Jewett and his Mary Shepard This great grandfather of mine died before he old and Great grandmother Jewett lived many years with her my Grandmother Glidden Aunt Emily Cromett was a in that home and remembers her Grandmother Jewett as a woman She has told me of her attractive face and form her delicate hands of her great refinement and strength of character and the charm of her personality She was the daughter of Dr Shepard of Brentwood N H one of the great pulpit orators New England and a commanding figure of his time Her mother Elizabeth Hill descended we believe through the Valentine Hill from Gov Theophilus Eaton of Connecticut
