Levi Woodworth Eaton

1811 - 1897

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Birth 23 Aug 1811

Sex Male

Died 20 Sep 1897

Person ID I12766 Nova Scotia Genealogies

Last Modified 04 Jun 2009

Father Amos Eaton, b. 28 Jul 1785

Mother Sarah Harris, b. 2 Apr 1787

Family ID F3507 Group Sheet

Family Sarah Bigelow, b. 1814, Pugwash, Cumberland Cnty, Nova Scotia

Children

>	1. Sarah Jane Eaton, b. 12 Nov 1835, Pugwash, Cumberland Cnty, Nova Scotia
>	2. Lydia Ann Eaton
>	3. George Woodworth Eaton
>	4. Albert Woodworth Eaton, b. 1840, Pugwash, Cumberland Cnty, Nova Scotia

Family ID F4607 Group Sheet

Histories Ships of Levi Woodworth Eaton

Notes	He is a merchant in Auckland, New Zealand, whither he went from Nova Scotia in 1860. (This family is far away, and the father has partially lost his sight, so that I despair of getting any more information regarding them.) AWHE, 1885 He removed from Nova Scotia to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1860, with his son Capt. George Eaton and was a merchant there. He was living in 1885. What impelled Levi Woodworth Eaton and his son, Captain George, to emigrate to New Zealand is said by the Eaton family of Pugwash of the present day to have been the fact that the day for building sailing ships in Nova Scotia had passed. He therefore sought another field for such activities. So he embarked in the last built of his many vessels, taking his son George with him as captain, for the far-away New Zealand port. His removal, with his family, in 1860, to this remote country is spoken of conspicuously by Cyrus Black, Esq., of Amherst, Cumberland County, a man of great prominence who knew the Pugwash Eaton family well, in his valuable little genealogical book on the Black family, descendants of the noted Rev. William Black, "father of Methodism" in Nova Scotia, published at Amherst in 1885. Mr. Cyrus Black shows that Mary Anna Crane, whose parents were Rev. Robert H. Crane, a Methodist clergyman, and his wife Matilda (Black), "was married to Capt. George Eaton of Pugwash, son of Levi Eaton, Esq." Mr. Black relates that a few years after this marriage "a company of persons embarked at Pugwash for Auckland, New Zealand. They consisted in part of Levi Eaton and his family, George Eaton and his wife, Rev. William Hobbs, a Baptist minister, and his wife, with others. Capt. Eaton," he says, "a few years after his arrival at Auckland was lost at sea and his widow soon after came back to her mother's at Pugwash. They had a son named Robert Crane and a daughter who died young. Mrs. Eaton was subsequently married to Augustus, son of George Carter of Pugwash, where they reside. They have one son, John W. and a daughter Nettie." The son of Capt. George Eaton remained with his grandfather in Auckland and very likely has descendants there now. AWHE, 1929 The additional information on this family appears in CEE, 1979. KAB, 1996

Sources
[SGM] Nova Scotia Eatons
Edmonton, Canada, Keith@nseaton.org.
This is a continuation of the works by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton and Charles Ernest Eaton. It is a work in progress.

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