Marshall Eaton was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, on March 5, 1822, where he was a shoemaker. He enlisted in the Union Army on July 14, 1864, and mustered in at Camp Meigs in Readville, Massachusetts on July 27th, serving as a private in the third tour of duty of the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Company G, a so-called 100-days’ unit of men mostly from Woburn. His service records show that he was 5’, 7½” tall, had brown eyes, light hair and a sandy complexion. The 5th Massachusetts served garrison duty in Baltimore, Maryland from July to November 1864. Company G also guarded the polls on Maryland’s Eastern Shore during the election to ratify a new state constitution in October. The 5th mustered out at Readville on November 16, 1864. Marshall died of typhoid fever in Winchester, Massachusetts on February 13, 1865, at which time his occupation was listed as a mechanic. His wife, Nancy Maria Phelps, later remarried to John Francis, with whom she had one child. Per the census of 1910, sometime after Francis’s death, Nancy moved in with her daughter, Emily (Eaton) Wood, in Belmont. Both Nancy and John Francis are buried alongside Marshall.
Marshall Eaton was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, on March 5, 1822, where he was a shoemaker. He enlisted in the Union Army on July 14, 1864, and mustered in at Camp Meigs in Readville, Massachusetts on July 27th, serving as a private in the third tour of duty of the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Company G, a so-called 100-days’ unit of men mostly from Woburn. His service records show that he was 5’, 7½” tall, had brown eyes, light hair and a sandy complexion. The 5th Massachusetts served garrison duty in Baltimore, Maryland from July to November 1864. Company G also guarded the polls on Maryland’s Eastern Shore during the election to ratify a new state constitution in October. The 5th mustered out at Readville on November 16, 1864. Marshall died of typhoid fever in Winchester, Massachusetts on February 13, 1865, at which time his occupation was listed as a mechanic. His wife, Nancy Maria Phelps, later remarried to John Francis, with whom she had one child. Per the census of 1910, sometime after Francis’s death, Nancy moved in with her daughter, Emily (Eaton) Wood, in Belmont. Both Nancy and John Francis are buried alongside Marshall.
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