Henry EATOR (his one surviving son changed the spelling of the last name to EATER) died 29 Sep 1845, and was buried in the Hatcher Cemetery. Until the early 1990s, there was a substantial granite marker at his grave. Henry had come to the area from Ohio. He was joined here by at least one other family from there - that of John MUMBOWER. John acted as Guardian to Henry's minor son Jonas EATER, until Jonas reached his 18th birthday, and came into his inheritance. Henry was apparently quite well-to-do, as Jonas is found in the 1850 Census with $1000 in cash assets. There may have been others who came from the Logan Co., Ohio area to Washington/Perry County. I have not tried to track down how many others. This pattern was not unusual, as I have two other groups who came to that part of Illinois from Ohio, and Kentucky in my research of my direct lines. The Hatcher burial grounds had a number of graves dating from just before, or just after, 1850, and so is very old and long used. It is likely that Henry's wife Elizabeth HUNTER EATOR is buried there, as she died 6 Aug 1845. If memory serves, there was an epidemic of meningitis/typhus in the area at that time. It is also possible, that their daughter Shady EATOR was buried there in June of 1844, and their son George Washington EATOR in July of 1841, as Henry had patented and settled land the area in May of 1841. Kim