Montezuma County CO Archives Obituaries.....Eaton, Perlina "Lina" Monroe January 12, 1913
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Montezuma Journal, January 23, 1913, page 2, columns 3-5
Lina M. Eaton

Lina Monroe was born August 11, 1843 in Gilboa, Ohio, and moved with her 
widowed mother to Maquoketa, Iowa, in 1854, at which place she grew to 
womanhood. Was married to Henry D. Eaton of Garden Plain, Ill. Dec. 24, 1862. 
Seven children were born to them, six boys and one girl. Five of the children 
live to mourn a devoted mother. The father and two boys meet her on the other 
side.

She was a devoted Christian woman believing in the ultimate salvation of all 
mankind. Was a member of the Universalist Church of Good Shepherd, of 
Morrison, Ill., but about 1900, transferred to the Congregational church of 
Cortez, there being none of her faith in this country. She, with her husband 
and twin sons moved to Colorado, March 1891, where she has lived ever since 
and is well known by nearly all of the older settlers. During the war she was 
a very strong abolitionist, helping in every way for the cause of freedom that 
she could, sewing on uniforms, cooking, making bandages, etc., for the 
regiment that was raised in her town, sending cousins and friends off with a 
cheerful word to fight for the right. When the Kansas settlers in the early 
seventies were in such dire need, she even sent her wedding dress to help 
them, an act of charity the only daughter always resented.

She knew the pioneer life, having traveled overland from Illinois through 
Kansas and Missouri, living a year at Atchinson, Kansas, and also the same 
length of time in St. Joseph, Mo., returning to Whiteside Co., Ill. in 1870, 
residing there until the spring of 1884. The family moved to Iowa and was one 
of the active members of the W.C.T.U.

Always an ardent suffragette, and using her enfranchisement in this state with 
a careful view of the question, voting always for what she considered the 
right.

She loved church work and always during the childhood of her own children and 
that of the three grand children whom she raised she could be seen nearly 
every Sunday driving with them to church and Sunday school where she was 
always wanted as superintendent or teacher.  Her religion was so broad and 
full of the belief of the loving Father that she was always listened to with 
pleasure by all.  Her Biblical knowledge was very great indeed.
Always a student she studied Harper’s magazine and her older children’s 
lessons while rocking the babies to sleep, keeping her mind ever active.  Was 
a graduate of Chautauqua, reading the course continually for 15 years after 
graduation.

She excelled in all kinds of needle work.  Her embroidery especially being of 
the finest, her knitting of fine lace being something quite wonderful.  Her 
hands as well as mind being ever active.
Was a graduate of Maquoketa high school at 15 years of age.  Commenced 
teaching one year later, teaching three and one-half years prior to marriage.  
After her children were reared, the youngest being about 10 years-old she 
resumed her former occupation of teaching, teaching almost continually for 16 
years in Iowa and Colorado.  Mrs. Eaton taught in seven different districts in 
Montezuma county.  With the exception of two and one-half years in Iowa caring 
for her aged mother her residence has been continuous in Montezuma since her 
arrival in 1891.

Her devotion to Socialism was of the deepest and the distress of the needy she 
could not help, one of her greatest trials.

Since returning to Colorado in 1908 she has made her home with her daughter, 
Mrs. J. Will Miller, on the old home place she loved so well and where she is 
laid beside her husband and son, Johny.  Funeral services were conducted by 
Rev. S. C. Green.

Of the five children still living two sons and a daughter live in Montezuma 
valley while the oldest, Ernest, is a railroad in British Columbia, and the 
next oldest, Lester has been in government employ in Des Moines, Iowa, for 18 
years.

In Memoriam
Hall of West End Lodge
No. 293. A.O.U.W.

Des Moines, Iowa,
Jan 13, 1913

WHEREAS.  We learn with profound regret that our esteemed Recorder Bro. Lester 
Eaton has this day received a telegram conveying to him the sad news of the 
death of his beloved mother, Mrs. Lina M. Eaton, who died in Montezuma county, 
Colorado, Jan. 12, 1913, the lodge at once appointed a committee with 
instructions to draft resolutions assuring Brother Eaton of the sincere 
sympathy of his brethren in his great loss, and

WHEREAS.  One member of the committee was personally acquainted with the 
deceased having for her the highest possible regard, and having for her 
sterling and womanly qualities the warmest admiration.  Therefore, be it

RESOLVED.  That we hereby extend to our brother our most profound sympathy in 
his great sorrow, and trust that the fraternal assurances of his brethren will 
be to him a source of consolation in his hour of grief.  Be it further

RESOLVED.  That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the lodge, 
that a copy of them be presented to Brother Eaton and that copies of them be 
sent to the newspapers of the town of Cortez, in the county where Mrs. Eaton 
resided.

H. C. Bachrodt.
J. D. Buttersfield
Committee.


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