EATON FAMILY
The Eaton family of Thurston, Steuben
County, N.Y. traces its lineage back to a Jeduthan Eaton and Nancy Stone Eaton
of New Hampshire. Jeduthan was the son of David Eaton II, born
4 August 1738 and died 1820, and his wife Abigail Curtis born 1749 and died
13 September 1829. Nancy Stone Eaton was the daughter of Jeremiah
Eaton.
Jeduthan and Nancy Stone Eaton were
the parents of eleven children who were born in Vermont. They were: Julia
born 1802, David born 1804, Jeduthan born 1806, Hiram born 1808, Eliza born
1812, Mariah born 1813, Jeremiah born 1814, Nancy born 1816, Jane born 1818,
Amanda born 1823 and Adeline born 1825.
Hiram Eaton, born in Vermont in
1808, married Ruth Andrus who was born in 1812 in Onondaga County, N.Y. a daughter
of Charles and Lucinda Davis Andrus. (Lucinda was a full-blood Mohawk
Indian.) Hiram and Ruth Eaton went to Michigan in the early 1830s with
his parents, his brothers, and his wife’s parents. Their first
two children, Charles William Eaton and Emeline Eaton, were born in Michigan. Hiram
and Ruth with their 2 oldest children returned to New York State accompanied
by Ruth’s parents. (In Michigan Hiram and Ruth lost two children
to an epidemic so the “glow” of Michigan wore off and they decided
to head back home.) However, his parents remained in Michigan and Jeduthan
Eaton died there and was buried in the Stony Creek Cemetery in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, N.Y. His widow, Nancy, died in June of 1872 and was buried in
the East Amboy Cemetery, Camden, Hillsdale County, Michigan.
The Hiram Eaton family settled
near Wheeler in Steuben County before making Thurston, N.Y. its permanent residence
circa 1850. Two more children were born to them, a son Hiram Edwin
and a daughter Rosella. Hiram Eaton died before 1860 and his wife
Ruth died in 1892. Both are believed buried in the Eaton plot of the
Village Cemetery in Thurston.
1. Charles William
Eaton aka William Charles Eaton married Phebe Dyer. Their children
were: William T., Phebe, Julius, Marilla, Julius Virgil, Eva and Edith.
a) William
T. Eaton married Frances Sisson and they were the parents of Edith, Julia,
and
William Herbert.
1) Edith,
born 1896, married Gilbert Simpson
2) Julia,
born1897, married Earl Hough
3) William
Herbert, born 1909, married Alma Coon. They had a son Herbert who
died
in 1943.
b) Phebe
c) Julius
born 1856 and died 1861
d) Marilla
born 1858
e) Julius
Virgil born 1862 and died 1947, married and had a son Allan C. Eaton
f) Eva
Myrtle born 1866
g) Edith
Estelle born 1870
2. Emeline Eaton
married Warner Eddy Aldrich and they were the parents of eight children: Bert
I, Bert II, Dora, Hiram, Stephengina, Lavinia, Guy and Fay Aldrich.
.
a) Bert I, died
from illness while an infant
b) Bert II
c) Dora, was a
schoolteacher and died in 1859, buried Thurston Village Cemetery
d) Hiram, born
1869, married Effie Stickler and had six children: Claude Duncan, Gladys,
Dora,
Earl Richard, Fay Clifford, and Charles Aldrich
e) Stephengina
married a Mr. Fulkerson and resided in Hammondsport, N.Y.
f) Lavinia married
William Wood of Campbell, N.Y. and had two children, William
and
Dora
g) Guy was called “Muse”
h) Fay was killed
during World War I while serving with the Merchant Marine
3. Edwin
Hiram aka Hiram Edwin married Laura Wilber and they were the parents of
five children. (This
branch settled in Cattaraugus County, N.Y.)
a) Marshall
b) Hiram, married
and had two children: Vivian and Harry
c) Howard, married
and had two children: Merle and Laura
d) Henry married
and had two children: Jennie and Viola
e) Horace
4. Rosella
married Guilford Wilber, a brother of Laura Wilber and they had four children.
(This branch settled
in Chenango County, N.Y.)
a) Willis F.
b) Charles born 1877
c) Hoxie born 187_
d) Myrtie born 1879
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