Well folks..... the Big Memorial Day Event is over.....with a bit of rain and good help... it was a success....To all that turned out..Thank You!
For me the big complaint was the speaker system at the cemetery...So sorry we tried to borrow one...but was unable to, most likely because of other Memorial Day Services. Since it was important to the event...I will give you what I said that morning here!
The Historic Eaton Cemetery has within its grounds the bodies of many of the men who fought in the Revolutionary War and who moved west to settle this historic town. Veterans of that war who fought at Lexington and Concord...(the Shot heard around the World) as well as Bunker Hill (Breeds Hill)
These men moved to this community from, in many cases, Massachusetts to make this part of that state. We ended up becoming New York State.
George Washington and George Clinton with Col. William Smith rode through this area after the war to look for land to buy. Today the Washington Tract still has Historic Markers that read to that effect.
Col. William Smith an adj. to Washington. who married President Adams daughter Abigail, bought the parcel that makes up much of Eaton selling these parcels to Col. Joshua Leland. The area became known as Smith's Valley and is the first clearing in Madison county. These men fought for freedom and democracy and so we honor them here today...including Miles Standish III...grandson of Miles Standish...and all the Veterans of all the Wars fought for our Freedom buried here.
The flag that we raisted was sent to us in 1995 by the Hometown of many of these men, Sherburne, Mass...they flew the flag over the Town Hall and presented it to us with a formal proclamation!
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