"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 483.
 
JOHN J. EATON
     The subject of this sketch, a view of whose residence appears in this work,
was born in Blunt county, Tennessee, November 12, 1838, which, however, he left
when but seven years of age and accompanied his parents to Jackson county,
Missouri, where he resided until 1853.  In that year, accompanied by his father,
mother, two sister and five brothers, he crossed the plains to Oregon with
ox-teams, and coming direct to LANE county, located in the Pleasant Hill
district and there was occupied in agricultural pursuits for ten years.  At the
expiration of that period, namely, in 1863, he removed to the territory of Idaho
where he embarked in mining operations for about eight years, when, returning to
Lane county, and to Pleasant Hill, he there continued until the month of April,
1880, at which time he took up his residence at Junction City and commenced the
livery business he now conducts.
 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.