IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I >» IIIIM IIIM 20 1.8 1.25 1.4 1.6 -• 6" - ► Photographic Sciences Corporation \ ^^^4^ ^ 4,^V ^1? 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY 145B0 (716) 872-4503 # <^ L he was appointed a Commissioner in the I \ :i|p^^i«:. -il#»#-S»^.. \il 11 Supreme Court of tlie Province, imd in 1870, as liis fatiier hail lievn before him, a .1 iistice of the Peace. Sixteen years later, in 188(>, the shire town of Kentville, where he had long resided, one of the oldest and most beautiful viilaj^es in tiie Province, \va.s incorporated, and the prominent part he had always taken in its pui)lic affairs, and his high standing in the community naturally gave him a place on its first Council Hoard. Soon after he was iiskcd to accept the rcs|ionsilile position of (^Icrk and Tresisurer of the town, and this doulile office he held until liis death. In early manh.xHl our fatlier settled in Kentville, where after some yeai-s he married Anna Augusta Willuughby Hamilton, his l)rother .lohn Kufus, also, soon after marrying her sister Josephine. Our mother was the youngest daughter of Otlio and Maria Starr Hamilton ; a descendant of one of the well-known branches of the Scottish Hamiltons (her grandfather having been born and educated in Scotland), and of the American Starrs, and De Wolfs ; and a near connexion of the Willoughbys. Her family belonged to tiie Church of Kngland, and she and our father were married by the Ilev. .lohn Storrs, father of the present popular Vicar of St. I 12 Peter's, Eaton Square, London, at St. James Church, Kentville, a clnircli identified with much of our family's history in the past and now. On their marriage our parents settled in Kentville, always our mother's home, and gradually our father ac- quired a valuable • .ty, which he continually more and more gnt to improve. Our dear mother was a proud, sensitive woman, of acknow- ledged beauty, and with a loving, tender heart. She, too, died suddenly, at the early age of fifty- tive, on the twenty-third of September, 1883, and not only her sad family circle, but society at large, mourned for her as one of its most useful members. Of our father's relations in the Eaton name were hifi first cousins the late Colonel Daniel Eaton, of Washington, D. C, the late Mr. George Eaton, of St. John, New Brunswick, Clement Belcher Eaton, of St. Stephen, and Brenton Halliburton Eaton, of Halifax. Other more distant cousins wore General John Eaton, of Washington, and Wyatt Eaton, one of the most eminent portrait and figure painters of our day. His nearest relations of other names were among the Ulisses, Rands, and Whites. He was connected distantly with both the Bliss fami- lies of New Brunswick, to one of which belonged I ivm 18 'i Chief Justice Joiiatlian and liis son .Tu(l;,'e William Blowers Bliss; to the other Judj^e Daniel and his 6011 Judge John Murray Bliss, and the mother of Sir Lemuel Allan Wiliiiot. His White relations were exelneively in the United States, the most eminent of thciti, perhaps, being the late Mr. llicliard Grant White. His children are six, two of them graduates of Harvard, and all holding honorable positions in society. One of his sons is a clergyman of the Episcopal Church in New York, and another a lawyer and j)ro8e- cuting attorney in the State of Washington. His only daughter is the wife of Mr. George A. Layttm, of H. M. Customs in Truro, and his most dearly loved daughter-in-law, the wife of his youngest son, is a dangliter of the late Mr. James II. Thorne, of Halifax. Of our father's last sickness the facts arc few. A week before liis death he left his otlico as usual, after a hard day's work, and in the evening wafi seized with a violent chill which shortly developed into pneumonia. On Wednesday, May third, he died at " Elmwood," the honi« where the benedic- tion of his presence had so long been felt, and then we began to know how much the people among f 14 wlioiii liis lift' liad gone on, valued and loved liiin. His funeral was the largest and most touching ever known in the county. The schools were closed, the court Wii8 KURj)cnded, public resolutions were passed, beautiful flowers were sent, and with universal sorrow he was borne to rest. Not the least touch- ing tribute was that paid him by the children of the schools, who went into the woods and with their own hands plucked great <|uantities of Mayflowers for his casket. With masses of these beautiful native flowers, just then in bloom, his grave in " The Oaks" was lined : and so our father slept. The order of his funeral was as follows : The Mayor anij Town Council The HoAun ok School Commissioners Ex-Mayors and Ex-Councillors Town Officials Officiating Clkroymen The Body (borne by Ex-otticiala of the Town) Mourners A Lar(;e Concourse of Citizens At the gate of the cemetery the Town Council, School Commissioners, and Town Oflicials, who had 15 preceded the body divided into two linen, uncover- ing, as the casket was hornc within. Then tliey solemnly fell behind the bier, and so psissed to the grave. At a public Memorial Service held in Kentville, a few days after our father's death, Judge ('hi|)uiaii, with whom and whose family he lia