When Mary Eaton was born in 1847, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Amasa Eaton, was 24 and her mother, Sarah, was 27. She lived in Mifflin Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1850.
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.
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