{"id":55704,"date":"2014-05-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=55704"},"modified":"2014-05-17T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T18:23:05","slug":"eaton-day-to-be-held-may-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=55704","title":{"rendered":"Eaton Day to be held May 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cemetery Association celebrates 130<sup>th<\/sup> year<\/p>\n<p>(Town of Eaton, NY &#8211; May 2014) Memorial Day Monday, May 26 will be a special day in the Town of Eaton called Eaton Day.\u00a0\u00a0 The day is a community event that goes on every few years in the Hamlet of Eaton and is sponsored by the Neighbors for Historic Eaton (Old Town Folks) who run the Old Town of Eaton Museum. The event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eaton Day starts with a parade and ceremony in the historic Eaton Cemetery where the many veterans that have served the town are honored.\u00a0 Eaton was actually settled by many Revolutionary War Veterans and has many veterans of all the wars buried there.<\/p>\n<p>The day will also honor the Eaton Village Cemetery Association, which is celebrating its 130<sup>th<\/sup> year of official incorporation.\u00a0 The cemetery itself dates back to 1801 and was once the site of the first schoolhouse in the area that was located on the Old Indian Trail.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1850\u2019s, George Morse one of the members of the famous Morse family of Eaton, found cows over-running the cemetery and formed a society to police and\u00a0 keep the cemetery.\u00a0 That cemetery group is the Eaton Village Cemetery Association and the work they have done to preserve the cemetery is an act of community service spanning over 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>For the \u201cSpecial Day\u201d free self-guided cemetery tours will be offered and a new book listing many of the famous people who are buried within its grounds will be available. \u00a0A number of these represent an important part of not only Eaton and Madison County\u2019s history but national history.<\/p>\n<p>The day will also feature bake sales, book sales, raffles, gifts, crafts and historic presentations, as well as an ice cream social.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers for the day at the museum will be Mike Curtis on Growing Heritage Hops, Madison County Historian Matt Urtz speaking on veterans of the World War II and Bob Betz on the \u201cWorkings of the Chenango Canal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Old Town of Eaton Museum will be open with tours given by former Madison County Historian and writer Back Street Mary Messere.\u00a0 (Of interest is the fact that the Eaton Cemetery contains two of the county\u2019s past famous historians \u2013 Luna Chase Hammond of Hammond\u2019s History of Madison County and Thomas Hall).<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historystarproductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.historystarproductions.com<\/a> or email backstreetmary@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cemetery Association celebrates 130th year (Town of Eaton, NY &#8211; May 2014) Memorial Day Monday, May 26 will be a special day in the Town of Eaton called Eaton Day.\u00a0\u00a0 The day is a community event that goes on every few years in the Hamlet of Eaton and is sponsored by the Neighbors for Historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}