Lorinda Browning

Lorinda Browning

• Father: George Wesley Browning b. c 1780, d. b 1 Jun 1840
• Mother: Sarah Shepherd b. s 1784, d. bt 1836 - 1840

• Charts: Benson Ancestry

• Name Variation: Larinda Browning
• Name Variation: Lovinda Browning
• Birth*: 1817, KY
• Married Name: say 1838, Eaton
• Marriage*: 17 January 1839, Vermilion Co., IL, Groom=James Edward Eaton
• Death*: 7 June 1890, Munson, Henry Co., IL, Died, at her residence in Munson, Saturday, June 7th, 1890, Mrs. Lorinda Eaton, relict of the late James Eaton, aged 73 years.
  Mrs. Eaton immigrated from Kentucky with her husband to Munson in 1851, where he entered the farm upon which both lived constantly up to the time of their respective deaths, Mrs. Eaton having survived her husband about twenty years.
  They were the parents of ten children viz: Thomas W., now of Chicago; Elizabeth (Woodsmall), now of Missouri; George W., near Indianapolis, Ind: James A. of Chicago; Sarah (Benson), Annawan, this county; Francis, who died in 1871; Maggie, wife of Luther Elston; Mary M., wife of Andrew Elston, Charles W. and John F., both of Chicago.
  Mrs. Eaton was an industrious woman, good neighbor and devoted mother, She had been wasting away with the frailties of age for some time before her death.
  The funeral was held at the residences at one o'clock p.m., Sunday June 8th, Rev. C. W. Davis officiating at the last obsequies. Several of her children and a large number of friends were present and the remains were interred in the Pleasant Hill cemetery beside those of her husband and daughter.
  Cambridge Chronicle, June 1860¹
• Burial*: say 9 June 1890, Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Munson, Henry Co., IL