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Widowhood and motherhood wrote an episode of mingled sorrow and gladness it the life of Mrs. Tvah Eaton, who yesterday morn ing gave birth to a ten-pound baby boy in Community Frospited Life trailed death by only twelve days as Mrs. Eaton's husband, the late Congressman Thomas M Eaton, passed away Sept 16, after being stricken in Washington while representing this (the Eighteenth) congressional district in the last regular session of the national leg islature. The baby arrived at 1 am, and both he and the mother are re ported “doing nicely.” He is the third child in the Eaton family. The others are Elizabeth, 16, and Thom as Jr., 12. The baby was named Robert Burdick Eaton, Burdick being Mrs. Eaton's maiden name. Because of approaching mother hood, Mrs. Eaton returned from Washington ahead of her late hus band. His condition was not re garded as serious when she left there. She returned to the capitol by plane when Congressman Eaton's condition took a sudden turn for the worse, and accompanied him on the last sad journey home, which preceded by so short a time the death that cut short his career.
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Fri, Sep 29, 1939
Page 22
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Cynthia D.
