Clan Boyd Society,
International
LOUDON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
DR R.P.
EATON, a prominent farmer and successful practitioner, was
born 1835, in Jefferson County,
where he was reared and educated.
About 1856 he began the study
of medicine, moving in 1858 within the
present limits of Loudon County,
and in 1865 to his present home, where
he has enjoyed a lucrative
practice. He began, a poor man, with $4 and
little property, but has,
by care and application, acquired his present
home of 600 fine acres. He
represented Knox and Roane Counties in the
State Senate, in 1867-68,
and at present is one of the board of trustees
of the State University. November
13,1859, he married his present wife.
They have had two sons and
five daughters. The Eaton family is of
Scotch-Irish origin, and came
to this State from Pennsylvania. The
paternal grandfather, Robert
D., was a captain, under Jackson, in the
war of 1812. He and his wife
died in Anderson County. Andrew C., the
father, was born in Grainger
County, in 1804, and married Susan M.
Donaldson, of Jefferson County.
Their decease occurred in 1878 and 1880
respectively. Our subject
and ELLEN C., now MRS BOYD
(a widow), of this
county, are their only children.
Source: Biographical Appendix
- History of Loudon Co; TN -
Goodspeed Publishing Co.,
1887
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