In Newbury, along High Road, is the Parish Burying Ground, which has a grave for the Eatons that includes Mabel Knight (Eaton), who lived 100 years.
The cemetery is on the east side of High Road, across the street from the First Parish of Newbury. The grave is toward the back of the cemetery.
The grave marker is a vertical monument about three feet high. On one side is the following text:
"James Eaton
July 2, 1876
Aug. 18, 1969
His Wife
Mabel Knight
July 17, 1880
April 6, 1981"
The following events happened on the years of her birth and death:
1880:
March 31 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
May 13 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
August 26 – Competing circus owners P. T. Barnum and James A. Bailey sign a contract in Bridgeport, Connecticut to create the Barnum & Bailey Circus. In 1907, the circus will merge forces with another competitor, the Ringling Brothers Circus.
November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.
November 4 – The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
1981:
January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis.
March 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; 2 police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.
April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit.
April 18 – A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).
May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman who is allegedly on orders from the Soviet KGB to shoot him, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience. The Pope recovers.
August 1 – The first 24-hour video music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched and airs its first video, Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles.
September 25 - Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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