Wife of physician Jonathan Dayton and aunt of the American statesman of the same name, Mrs. Dayton had resided in the "Cannon Ball House" on Morris Avenue, so-named because it had been struck by a cannon ball during the Revolutionary War Battle of Springfield in June 1780. Widowed just 2 years earlier, Mrs. Dayton had turned her home into a tavern stop after her husband's death. The couple were the parents of young Fanny Dayton, also buried in the family plot.
Wife of physician Jonathan Dayton and aunt of the American statesman of the same name, Mrs. Dayton had resided in the "Cannon Ball House" on Morris Avenue, so-named because it had been struck by a cannon ball during the Revolutionary War Battle of Springfield in June 1780. Widowed just 2 years earlier, Mrs. Dayton had turned her home into a tavern stop after her husband's death. The couple were the parents of young Fanny Dayton, also buried in the family plot.
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