The History of Taylor Eaton
Most of the information on the Eaton family is oral history, passed from one generation to the next.In the future, I hope to confirm as much of this information as possible.
As some of the story goes:
We don’t know, for sure, when Taylor was born.The date most people agree on is Nov. 25, 1866.
Taylor was raised at the Cherokee Orphans Home, in Salina, Oklahoma, where he met and married Ida Mae Comstock.
To the best of our knowledge, Taylor’s parents were Lisander Eaton and Eliza Alberty.There may have been five children.David, Albert, Taylor, Sanders (also called John), and Mary.
I have always been told that, Taylor was in the orphans home because his dad, who was a blacksmith, cut a man up real bad with a knife used to trim horse hooves.They left that place (Salina?), and moved to Chouteau, Oklahoma, where he started another blacksmith shop.He had another fight, and cut another man, who he thought he killed.He ran away and left the kids, who were then put in the orphan’s home.
Taylor and Ida also raised an orphan boy, named Pete Richardson.Whiteman (Orlin), spoke of him as a brother.I don’t know when he was born, but he was killed July 22, 1931.
I don’t know if this is accurate, but it is what I was always told.
We also have a cousin who went to prison for murder.Taylor’s brother, John lived in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, after they left the orphan’s home.He had a son, named Ellis Eaton, who married an Osage Indian woman.Later, they split up and she married an old Osage Indian man with a lot of oil money.Ellis and she got back together, and Ellis killed the old man so she would get his money.At his trial, the jury voted 11-1 for the electric chair.The 11 jurors could not change the other man’s mind, so they gave Ellis a life sentence.He served 14 years and was released.He only lived a few years after he got out of prison.I can remember him, a little, but I was pretty young when he would come to our house.He was my dad’s first cousin.
Taylor’s wife, was Ida Comstock.Her parents were Harvey A Comstock and Emily Webb.Ida had three sisters; Dee, who married John Dunham; Irene (everyone called her Tom), who married Aryle Armbrewster; and Faye, who I don’t know much about.She also had several brothers, but the only one I know of was named Frank.