Nancy Eaton

Brief Life History of Nancy

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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Family Time Line

Stephen S. Spafford
1792–1872
Nancy Eaton
1796–1877
Marriage: 13 November 1817
Melvin Spafford
1818–1846
Milton Spafford
1821–1849
Wallace Spafford
1823–1906
Emily Spafford
1825–1826
Saloma Spafford
1826–1850
Franklin Spafford
1828–1912
Martha Spafford
1829–
Hiram Spafford
1837–1852

Sources (9)

  • Nancy Spafford in household of Stephen Spafford, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Nancy Eaton, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
  • Nancy Spaffoed, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1803

Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

Name Meaning

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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