When Orson Mortimer Eaton was born on 19 July 1840, in Rockport Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, his father, Dyer Eaton, was 38 and his mother, Emmeline Clark, was 27. He married Jane M. Spencer on 4 February 1864, in Marion, Linn, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Carlyle Township, Beadle, South Dakota, United States in 1900. He died on 23 January 1933, in Alpena, Jerauld, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Alpena, Jerauld, South Dakota, United States.
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.
My Grandfather Eaton's ancestors came to America on the Mayflower. His full name was Orson Mortimer Eaton. He was born July 19,1840. I thin in Wisconsin. His parents moved to Iowa and settled near …
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