Eaton Family - George Eaton - FindaGrave

I found this earlier this year on FindaGrave.com.

Birth:  George Eaton was born:

1814, 

Newport, Herkimer County, New York USA.

Death:  4 May 1862 (ager 47-48)

Garden City, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA

BURIAL: Garden City cemetery

Garden City, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA

MEMORIAL ID: 150736997 [Sharyn Herian]

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The description reads as:

All but 1 of George and Abigail Eaton's 6 sons served in the Civil War where 2 died and the 3rd died shortly after discharge. George was the son of Fuller Eaton and grandson of Benjamin Eaton who served in the Revolution, direct descendants of Francis Eaton of the Mayflower.

George Eaton died in May of 1862 outliving his own father but not his 2 sons. His two sons who died in the Civil War of wounds and sickness were first, Lewis Eaton who died Oct 1, 1864 his body and inventoried belongings shipped home from the Post Hospital, Pine Bluff Arkansas.

The second son to die was Lovell Eaton, sent home in December 1862 "from Little Rock alive" according to his Pension Record, to La Cross Wisconsin from "DuValle Bluff, Memphis and finally to Garden City" where he was buried in the Spring by his father and brother in the Garden City Cemetery.

Inscription

When George died unexpectedly at the beginning of the Civil War, Abigail chose this very large plot in the Garden City Cemetery established the same year in 1862. Nearly 20 years later, her body would be laid next to George and their son Warren Lyman would be buried there still later in 1916 with a Civil War Marker which Jenny Yates of FindaGrave photographed and memorialized in 2015.

Gravesite Details

the gravesites are unmarked but can be seen in the photo to the right of their son Warren Lyman Eaton's stone and you may click on Map to see their placement more clearly via satellite image. Sadly, only Warren Lyman Eaton has a gravestone.

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Family Members

PARENTS                  

1786-1862

Laura Tree Eaton

1794-1847

SPOUSE

Abigail Baldwin Eaton

1812-1883 (m.1834)

CHILDREN

George Warren L. Eaton

1839-1916

Ansel Eaton

1840-1917

Helen May Eaton Clow

1852-1935

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On 7 November 2022, I found at the following web page a discussion about George Eaton.

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/91036811

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