Eliza Billing (Austin) Eaton (1828 - 1895)

Born 3 May 1828 in Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Edwin Eaton D.D. — married 24 Dec 1850 in Huron County, Ohio, USA

Descendants

Died 20 Jan 1895 at age 66 in Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming, USA

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Biography

Birth

Born: 3 May 1828 in Massachusetts, USA.^[1][2][3]

Marriage and Children

Married: Edwin Eaton on 24 December 1850 in Huron County, Ohio.^[4]

Children of Edwin Eaton D.D. and Eliza Billing Austin:

1. Lida Eaton. Born c 1852 in Ripley, Ohio; married Robert Erskine Fitch; died February 6, 1918 in Laramie, Wyoming (ch. Edwin Fitch, Robert G. Fitch).
2. Fred Eaton. Born c 1854 in Florida; he married Eva.
3. Helen Mattie Eaton Born c 1857 in Monroeville, Ohio; died January 3, 1955 in Laramie, Wyoming. Never married.
4. Harry Eaton. Born August 1859.
5. Edwin Arunah Eaton. See next.
6. Raymond A. Eaton. Born c 1866 in Michigan; died Oct. 1939 in Denver, Colorado; married Marjorie Semple 2 June 1909 (ch. Marjorie S. Eaton, Raymond A. Eaton Jr.).

Death

Died: 20 January 1895 in Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming, USA.^[5][6]

The SAR application of her grandson gives precise date of death. The DAR applications of her daughters state she died in 1895.^[1][2][3]

Obituary:

Death of Mrs. Edwin Eaton^[5]
From the Laramie (Wyo) Republican
January 21st

Mrs. Eliza B. Eaton, mother of Mrs. R.E. Fitch, died quietly at the home of the latter in this city at 3:30 a.m. yesterday. Ms. Eaton who was ever a consistent, conscientious mother and helper of humanity, will be sincerely mourned by a large concourse of friends.

She was about 68 years old and was in mental physical vigor until four years ago, when the grip left her much enfeebled and since that she had a stroke of paralysis. She leaves, besides Mrs. Fitch, one daughter, Mrs. H.M. Eaton, who has devoted the past four years to the care of her mother, and two sons, Mr. E.A. Eaton, editor and manager of the Papillion Times, in Sarpy County, Nebraska, and Mr. R.A. Eaton, a reporter for the World Herald, of Omaha.

In accordance with her oft expressed desire, the remains have been taken east by Miss Mattie and R.A. Eaton for burial in a beautiful cemetery overlooking the the broad Mississippi where now lie her husband and two sons; one, Fred H. Eaton, well and favorably known to many connected with the Union Pacific railway service here.

Mrs. Eaton was the widow of the late Rev. Edwin Eaton, a former well known resident of Peru Township, this county.

Obituary:^[6]

We were pained to read in last week's Reflector of the death of Mrs. Eliza B. Eaton, of Wyoming territory. Her girlhood days were spent very near here, on the farm now belonging to A.T. Knight. She was a daughter of the late Timothy Austin, who was one of the pioneers of Ripley township. Eliza had many warm friends here, and though there are now but few of her early associates here who survive her yet she is remembered by those few for her lovely and noble qualities. Her kind words, deeds of charity, her christian character, are not forgotten by those who were her friends fifty years ago.

Sources

Footnotes and citations:

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Ancestry.com online database). Application of grandson Edwin Eaton Fitch.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Lineage Book of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 31 (Washington D.C., 1900): page 86. Application no. 30247 for daughter Mrs. Lida Eaton Fitch. Ancestry.com Link
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Lineage Book of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 32 (Washington D.C., 1911): page 67. Application no. 31185 for daughter Mrs.Helen M. Eaton. Ancestry.com Link
4. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZKG-1M6), Edwin Eaton and Eliza B. Austin, 24 Dec 1850; citing Marriage, Huron, Ohio, United States.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Norwalk Daily Reflector newspaper. 30 January 1895, page 3, column 2. Obituary of Eliza B. Eaton. Obtained through the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio; Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Ohio Obituary Index.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Norwalk Daily Reflector newspaper. 7 February 1895, page 3, column 4. Obituary of Eliza B. Eaton. Obtained through the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio; Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Ohio Obituary Index.

Source list:

• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Ancestry.com online database). Application of grandson Edwin Eaton Fitch.

• Lineage Book of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 31 (Washington D.C., 1900): page 86. Application no. 30247 for daughter Mrs. Lida Eaton Fitch. Ancestry.com Link

• Lineage Book of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 32 (Washington D.C., 1911): page 67. Application no. 31185 for daughter Mrs.Helen M. Eaton. Ancestry.com Link

• Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio; Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s to 2011.

• 1850 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQX-S35 ), Eliza Austin in household of Timothy Austin, Ripley, Huron, Ohio, United States; citing family 3002.

• 1860 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWD2-5NR ), Elisa (sic) Eaton in entry for Edwin Eaton, 1860.

• 1870 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDVG-GTN ), Eliza B Eaton in entry for Edwin Eaton, 1870.

• 1880 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6XV-MG3 ), Eliza Eaton, 1880.