ALICE M. EATON - LAST RESPECTS FOR MUCH BELOVED WOMAN OF ST. CROIX VALLEY
Funeral services were held for Alice Murchie Eaton on Nov 20, 1935. Widow of Charles Freedom Eaton was held at her Hickey Hill home today with Rev Thomas Cornish officiating. The bearers were Harold M. Murchie, Charles Todd, Ross Haycock, John McCann, William Tupper, and James Eaton. Interment was in the family plot in Rural Cemetery St. Stephens, N.B. with her husband Charles, and son Joseph Emerson Eaton who died in the Great World War.
She suffered with arthritis and had a heart attack in October which she did not recover from very well. When the end came there were at the bedside, James Murchie Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. George Mixter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freedom Eaton, Jr., and Mr., and Mrs., Henry B. Eaton.
Mrs. Eaton was born in Milltown N.B. October 24, 1860 the daughter of James and Margaret Jane Murchie. She was one of 14 children of James Murchie and his sixth daughter. She is now survived by one sister, Emma Jane Murchie Eaton and one brother, Henry S. Murchie of her immediate family.
She attended Milltown Schools and Calais Academy. She later studied music in Boston and New York. On Oct 20, 1885, she married Charles Freedom Eaton also of Milltown, son of Charles H. Eaton. After being married the couple made their first home in Palatka, Florida where Mr., Eaton was associated with his father-in-law in the lumber business. Their first child, James Murchie Eaton was born there.
ALICE M. EATON - LAST RESPECTS FOR MUCH BELOVED WOMAN OF ST. CROIX VALLEY
Funeral services were held for Alice Murchie Eaton on Nov 20, 1935. Widow of Charles Freedom Eaton was held at her Hickey Hill home today with Rev Thomas Cornish officiating. The bearers were Harold M. Murchie, Charles Todd, Ross Haycock, John McCann, William Tupper, and James Eaton. Interment was in the family plot in Rural Cemetery St. Stephens, N.B. with her husband Charles, and son Joseph Emerson Eaton who died in the Great World War.
She suffered with arthritis and had a heart attack in October which she did not recover from very well. When the end came there were at the bedside, James Murchie Eaton, Mr. and Mrs. George Mixter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freedom Eaton, Jr., and Mr., and Mrs., Henry B. Eaton.
Mrs. Eaton was born in Milltown N.B. October 24, 1860 the daughter of James and Margaret Jane Murchie. She was one of 14 children of James Murchie and his sixth daughter. She is now survived by one sister, Emma Jane Murchie Eaton and one brother, Henry S. Murchie of her immediate family.
She attended Milltown Schools and Calais Academy. She later studied music in Boston and New York. On Oct 20, 1885, she married Charles Freedom Eaton also of Milltown, son of Charles H. Eaton. After being married the couple made their first home in Palatka, Florida where Mr., Eaton was associated with his father-in-law in the lumber business. Their first child, James Murchie Eaton was born there.
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