Mary Eaton

Female1847–

Brief Life History of Mary

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.

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Family Time Line

Amasa Eaton
1823–
Sarah
1821–
Mary Eaton
1847–

Sources (4)

  • Mary Eaten in household of Ameror Eaten, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Ancestry Family Trees
  • 1850 census Amasa Eaton

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (1)

World Events (8)

1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War

Age 13

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.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

Age 16

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Age 34

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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