St. Clair County Obits

JESSE S. EATON

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6  April 1944
The funeral services were held from the Iconium Baptist church this [Thursday] afternoon at two o'clock for Jessie Sanford Eaton, who died suddenly Tuesday afternoon as he was enroute to the store at Iconium. The Rev. Kenneth Nichols officiated. Burial was in the Iconium cemetery under the direction of the Osceola Funeral Home.
Jessie Sanford Eaton, son of G.H. and Louisa "Hughes" Eaton, was born at Aullville, MO. on July 19, 1885 and departed this life near his home at Iconium on Tuesday, April 4th,[1944] at the age of 58 years, 8 months, and 16 days. He was united in marriage to Ruth Ann Anglin, August 9, 1923. To this union seven children were born.
He had been in failing health for almost four years, but his sudden death came as a shock to relatives and friends.
Though he had never made an open profession in Christ, he had often said that he was convinced that there was a higher power.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife, Mrs Ruth Eaton, seven children, Myrl, George, Frank, Jack, Billy, and Alonzo, all of the home. and Mrs Wesley "Louise" Ackers of Kansas City; one brother, Frank Eaton of Des Moines, Iowa; two sisters, Mrs. Lacy Wear of Kansas City and Mrs. Georgia Phillips of St Louis, also a number of distant relatives.
He was a devoted husband, a kind and loving father and will be sadly missed in his home and community.