Elythe Eaton

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[[Notes for ELYTHE "Lee" EATON:
5ft. 4 inches tall. Enjoyed music and played piano and had a very good voice. A very good dancer. Worked mostly as a waitress and cook. Hazel eyes and med. brown hair. Very intelligent but only a 9th grade education. Very articulate and well read. A sweet and kind person. died in a fire when her home burned.
She told a story of walking home home from school and a big dog come out of the woods (This is on the old homestead in Booner Ferry, Idaho) and walked along with her. Grandad (William O.) saw her and ran in the house and got his gun. When they neared the house the dog (which was in reality a timber wolf) took off for the woods.
Mom use to read from my library books aloud while I ate my breakfast. This was so that I could get through my books faster for book reports. She also enjoyed doing it. It was our together time as she was usually at work when I arrived home from school.

Elythe married Lester Melvin Moyer on 8 May 1930 in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada. Lester (son of Oscar Edward Moyer and Anna Irwin) was born on 5 Aug 1909 in Grangeville, , Idaho, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Vivian Elythe Moyer was born on 27 Mar 1931 in Seattle, King Co, Washington, USA.

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Notes for WILLIAM ORSON EATON:
Was a farmer and worked in shipyards during 2nd W.War. He homesteaded in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. He was a great story teller and could keep an audience spell- bound with his tales. He loved to study and was taking a Bible course up until his death. He had a great sence of humor.
He was raised by his uncle and grandfather (along with his brother). They opperated an Indian Trading Post in the Bonners Ferry, Id. area.
He opperated a lumber mill with Grandma Eatons half brother. When Grandma and her mother joined he brother she met grandad (Bill).
The Eaton Surname is in the Dr. Samuel Fuller line.

William married Mary Watrous on 17 Oct 1906 in Bonners Ferry, , Idaho, USA. Mary (daughter of Samuel L. Watrous and Mahala Adalaide Dalrymple) was born on 31 Jan 1885 in Monroe, Ashtabula Co, Ohio, USA; died in 1976; was buried in , Cowlitz Co, Washington, USA (Longview Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Notes for MARY ANNE WATROUS:
A very regal lady. She worked hard on the farm. Her brother ran a
sawmill with Bill Eaton #111 and she and her mother went from Ohio to
Idaho to be with Lewis and met Bill. She was very studious and would have
liked very much to have been a teacher.

William married Minnie Wilhite on 19 Jul 1882 in Iowa, USA. Minnie (daughter of Ekillis Willhite and Louisa Williams) was born on 3 Nov 1867; died on 15 May 1895. [Group Sheet]

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Notes for MINNIE (Amelia?) WILLHITE:
Prodigy notes:1. Eleanor Antoniak, Ssubject Hilheit Etc Book
WILHEIT, WILHITE, WILHOIT, WILHOITE, WILLHEIT, WILLHOIT, ETC. and related lines in 1991 book Hawkins and Allied Familes. We are currently collecting additional info for FREE supplement to be published soon. Includes Johann Michael, Tobias, etc lines. Book is hure - like unabridged dictionary. Connections to Gaar, Finks, Hawkins, Weaver, Blankenbaker, Crisler, Fischer, Yager and many many more. Families from VA exp Culpeper, Madison, and other Germanna families.
2. Jaqi Eringman: I have a copy of newspaper article that documents Wilhoite in Florence Kentucky. It mentions Michael Wilheit the immigrant ancestor who settled in Virginia. His son was Adam Wilhoite, married to Catharine. Their son was Michael Wilhlite who married Catharine Crisler. Their son was William Wilhoite wh married Anna Clore in 1787. Their children were Sally, kElizabeth, Thomas, kAnna, Frances, Allen, Lavinia, and Eliza. Much more information from there, you may want to give me something more specific to liik up, or I can send you a copy of the article. It is the Boone Co. Recorder, 1952. I don't have exact date. Other names that are mentioned in the article are Crigler, Aylor; Souther, and Rouse.
3. Warren E. Wilhide: Looking for additional information on ancestors and decendents of Frederich and Lucretian Wilheit(Willhide, Wilhide Wilhite, Willhoite) who immigrated to Philadephia in 1731 from Schwaigern Germany.

Samuel married Mahala Adalaide Dalrymple. [Group Sheet]

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Census Place: Sumner, Osborne Co, Kansas 1880
Household: Page Number 302C
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Fath er's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
William EATON Self M Male W 49 NJ Farmer VA MA
Emelia EATON Wife M FemaleW 38 IL Keeping House NY NY
Eva M. EATON Dau S FemaleW 7 IA NJ MI
Leroy J. EATON Son S Male W 4 IA NJ MI
Robert C. EATON Son S Male W 1 KS NJ IL
Ambrosia EATON Dau S FemaleW 11M KS NJ IL

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Notes for WILLIAM WALLACE EATON:
l. From the Bonners Ferry Herald: Bonners Ferry, Idaho, 17 Feb 1920
EARLY PIONEER OF BONNERS FERRY, WILLIAM EATON DIES FRIDAY
William Eaton, "The Father of Bonners Ferry" died Friday at one o'clock at his home west of the the schoolhouse. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the local Masonic Lodge, of which the deceased was a member, having charge of the services in accordance with the wishes of Mr. Eaton, oftimes expressed. A full representation of the Masonci Lodge marched to the cemetery under the command of J. W. Stewart. The pallbearers were George T. Gray, H. P. Garratt, Fred Gleed, F. A. Schultis, E. L. Little, and J. B. Bra???.
At the grave the beautiful and impressive Masonic funeral service was given in its entirety. The coffin was well covered with many beautiful floral tributes.
The deceased was 90 years old and was born 13 October 1829, at Newark, New Jersey. He came to this district 32 years ago and was one of the first white men to settle here. He is survived by his wife, to whom he was married in 1876 in Page County Iowa, and nine children; Mrs. T. J. Jones, Mrs. Eva Roath, Harry Eaton, and Roy Eaton, all of this city; Mrs. W. A. Sweet of Spokane, Mrs, Addie Hopper of Oregon; Mrs. Fannie Holbrook of Nebraska, Orson Eaton of southern Idaho, William W. Eaton of Wolf Creek Alberta, Mrs. Sweet of Spokane was here to attend her father's funeral but the other children residing out-of-town were not able to be here.
The deceased came from the well known Massachusetts family of Eatons whose progenitors came with the early Pilgrim Colonists to that "stern and rock bound shore".
About 1839 his parents immigrated west and settled in the Ohio river valley. The call of the west found eager response in Mr. Eaton in his early years and he worked in the lead mines of Galena, Illinois. and later lived at Keokuk Iowa. Here he received a rudimentary school education.
In the year 1849 Mr. Eaton had migrated to the most advanced outpost of the U. S. Army, later known as Fort Omaha, and here he engaged in trapping and trading.
When the Civil War came Mr. Eaton applied for enlistment but was rejected on account of a physical injury he had received by accident. However; he was appointed a Leutenant of the Home Guards Organization, whose duty it was to patrol the state boundaries and quell roving bands of guerillas and bandits that infested the district.
After the war he engaged in farmilng in Kansas and in 1887 he traded his farm for merchandise stock in Alton Kansas. In the spring of 1888 in company with a friend, William Rosegrant, Mr. Eaton came to the northwest for a hunting and exploring trip, and traveled over the mountains by way of Bull Lake Montana, coming to the Kootenai River at Troy and floating down the river on a raft to Bonners Ferry. They continued their journey to coast points but of all the places they visited they were most impressed with the country about Bonners Ferry and on their return home Mr. Eaton set about to make arrangements to return and bring his family and stock of merchandise. Mr. Rosegrant entered into partnership with him in the store venture and the party arrived here in August 1888. A large log building had been previously constructed almost upon the exact site of the present Eaton home and he purchased this and opened up for business as soon as he could freight his goods from the Northern Pacific railway by wagons. The merchandise business was slow aft first but it later became profitable.

William married Caroline Greene. Caroline (daughter of John Green and Lydia Page) was born on 9 Nov 1831 in ; died on 10 Jan 1902 in Hastings, Mills Co, Iowa, USA; was buried in ~(North Grove Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Ekillis married Louisa Williams. [Group Sheet]