DRACUT Though decorated Naval officer, Rear Admiral Joseph Eaton, served his country for four decades in the late 1800s and early 1900s, he was laid to rest in Dracut without military honors following his mysterious death in April 1913.
Joseph Eaton, born in Alabama in 1847, joined the U.S. Naval Academy in September 1863, in the midst of the Civil War. Eaton’s 40-year military career sent him around the world on a variety of naval assignments.
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