When Maria Eaton was born on 4 September 1826, in Chardon, Geauga, Ohio, United States, her father, Capt Roswell Fenton Eaton, was 33 and her mother, Jerusha Hazen, was 27. She married Monroe Hazen on 31 October 1846, in Chardon, Geauga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Chardon Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 5 September 1906, in Chardon, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Chardon Municipal Cemetery, Chardon, Geauga, Ohio, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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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