known to the present generation of the Kent Family as "Nana Burt's mother", was the daughter of Abel Parmenter Howe of Framingham, MA & Rutland, VT, and Almary Root of Greenwich, MA. Her Great great great Grandfather, David Howe (Nov 2 1674-Aug 3 1759) founded the Wayside Inn of Sudbury. Fanny Shaw was interested in family history and geneology, and , I believe, wrote at length about her family, the Roots and the Howes. I have a book of geneologies, written by her in which the following entry appears about the Howe Family. Fanny Shaw was married to Civil War hero John Hamilton Shaw.