When Nancy Eaton was born on 19 March 1796, in Stoddard, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, William Eaton Jr, was 31 and her mother, Bethiah Melvin, was 25. She married Stephen S. Spafford on 13 November 1817, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1850. She died on 21 May 1877, in Eaton, Lorain, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Butternut Ridge Cemetery, Laporte, Lorain, Ohio, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Eaton or Eton, such as Eaton Socon (Bedfordshire), Eaton (Cheshire), or Eton (Buckinghamshire), named from either Old English ēa ‘river’ or ēg ‘island, low-lying land’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: Nathaneal Eaton, born in Coventry, England, c. 1609, came to MA in 1637 and was the first head of Harvard College, in 1638–39.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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