Eaton Reunion, 1926
The Montreal Daily Star
August 21, 1926
Younger Branches Baptized
One of the most interesting features of the afternoon was the Christening
of all the unbaptized children., More than thirty of the most juvenile
descendants of the Eaton-Vanduzen families were baptized on the site where
their great great grand-parents had settled. These thirty represent less
than the average of the “annual crop” which owes its origin
to the sturdy pioneers who sought religious and political freedom: who
were not afraid to sacrifice possessions, social standing and public influence
on the altar of duty. Canada owes a debt to these early families - a debt
which is ever increasing as their descendants maintain a standard of public
spirit and private morality so often departed from among those whose roots
are less deeply set in the soil of this great Dominion.
That the spirit which animated the ancestors whose living descendants
number nearly five thousand residents in Canada is not dead, is proved
by the reminiscences of some of the elders who gathered at the annual
picnic. [?] Eaton, a grandson of Francis Eaton, thus testified:
Thinking it would be a good idea to put some of the old time stories
down in writing that we have heard father tell, so they may be heard by
their children’s children. We would like to say first, their home
was the place of religious service (Methodist) believing in God with His
great grace and love. The ministers of God found a real welcome in their
home. John Vanduzen was one of the ministers, being a brother of Grandmother
Eaton. Grandmother was a splendid nurse, in those old times; people would
come long distances for her help in time of sickness, she would have to
walk or go in a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen. She lived to be eighty-eight;
she did not seem to have a very high opinion of the M.D's. A few months
before she died her son said they had better get a doctor to come to see
her, she said No Enoch, do let me live out my natural life time.”
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