According to the 1910 US Census[1], Eaton was born in 1844. On that same census, he is listed as a Black, widowed famer in Dillard (Monroe County), Georgia. He was enslaved by the Samuel L Rutherford family in or near Crawford Co., GA. He is listed, by name, in the last will and testament of Samuel L Rutherford, March 1865:
"To my dearest baby Mary Jones or Molly (Rutherford), I give & bequeath old Kearney; Mammy or Eliza, his wife; Eaton, their son, & Kearney, their son, & Alice & Margaret or Gransy Peg, their youngest daughters & Mammy's increase. Also, Laura, her nurse and Dora, her child, & Laura's increase."
↑ Source Citation
Georgia Department of Health and Vital Statistics; Atlanta, Georgia
Description
Film Number: 004179214
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Georgia, Deaths Index, 1914-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: "Georgia Deaths, 1914–1927." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007. "Georgia Deaths, 1914–1927" and "Georgia Deaths, 1930," images, FamilySearch. Georgia Department of Health and Vital Statistics, Atlanta, Georgia.
Source Description
This database contains an index extracted from various death records from the state of Georgia.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182504797/c-eatonton-wright : accessed 22 March 2022), memorial page for C Eatonton Wright (10 Sep 1877–22 Aug 1924), Find A Grave: Memorial #182504797, citing Forsyth City Cemetery, Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Lisa G (contributor 48165680) .
Source Forthcoming - Crawford County, GA Will Books.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eaton by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eaton: