Joseph Eaton and Mary Ellen Barkhimer

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Husband Joseph Eaton ¹

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           Born: 17 May 1839 - Jenners Crossroads, Somerset Co, PA 2
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         Father: Benedict Eaton (      -1885) 2
         Mother: Sophia Kauffman (Abt 1814-1864) 2

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       Marriage: 25 Dec 1866 3

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Wife Mary Ellen Barkhimer ⁴

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           Born: 9 Sep 1848 - Blair Co, PA 3
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         Father: Louis Barkhimer (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Anna Mary Hysong (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M William Eaton ³

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2 F Anna Mary Eaton ⁴

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            AKA: Runa Eaton 5
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         Spouse: Robert Griffith Lohr (1868-      ) 6
           Marr: 27 Jun 1894 7

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3 F Margaret Eaton ³

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4 F Emma Jane Eaton ³

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5 M Joseph Eaton ³

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Eaton

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He was born at Jenner Cross Roads, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and was brought to Westmoreland County by his parents in 1840. He attended the volunteer school of that period during four winter terms prior to his fourteenth year, then went to Derry Station to seek employment. Not having money enough to pay his way the entire distance from his home, he finished his journey on foot. He found work with the woods gang who were getting out ties and wood for the contractors supplying the Pennsylvania railroad, the locomotives then being all wood burners. He continued in that employ until 1862, then enlisted in the Sixty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, seeing hard service with the Army of the Potomac in the transport service. He served three years in the army and then, with an honorable discharge, returned to Derry Station and his old job. A year later he became foreman with the firm of S. H. & R. Baker, remaining with them about nine years. He then went to Cambria County, where he secured a contract for hauling the pipe which entered into the construction of the first line to bring natural gas to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He next formed an association with his old employers, S. H. & R. Baker, purchased a saw mill and timber lands, engaging in the manufacture of hardwood lumber and the building of railway cars for the next ten years. He next founded the Joseph Eaton Hardwood Lumber Company; organized the Latrobe Wholesale Grocery Company, of which he became president; was one of the organizers and builders of the street railway connecting Whitney with Latrobe, and had a hand in developing many of the enterprises which have made Latrobe an important city. He was also largely interested in the Latrobe Trust Company.
He was a Republican in politics, but was never a candidate for any public office. In 1913 he was elected, however, a member of the Derry Township School Board, but soon tendered his resignation.
He was a member of the Latrobe Hospital Association, was a liberal contributor to the building fund, and was instrumental in securing a gift of the land upon which the hospital was built from Williams Post, No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was then an officer. He is a member of the United Brethren church, which he served as trustee, and through his generosity it became possible for the congregation to erect a church edifice.
His home in the southern part of the city was a fine estate of one hundred acres.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Ellen Barkhimer

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She was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, but grew to womanhood in Derry township, Westmoreland County, where she was brought in infancy by her parents.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 278, 454.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 278.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 279.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 279, 454.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 839.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 279, 453, 839.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 454.