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LULU, was buried next to him in 1953.
Before he was 30 years old, Uncle Eaton was a practicing attorney and political leader in Bay St. Louis. He was a presidential elector and publisher of the Gulf Coast Progress in 1892.
In 1900 he was elected to the Mississippi State Senate and served until 1902 when the voters sent him to the U.S. Congress where he served four terms from 1902 until 1910.
One lawsuit he was remembered for was against the Louisiana State Board of Health to force them to lift the quarantine against Mississippi towns during the 1898 yellow fever epidemic. It was the usual thing to blame outsiders for bringing the fever to the city. Today we all know a mosquito carries yellow fever. In his suit, uncle argued that the quarantine interfered with his law practice in Louisiana by not letting him travel to the city.
Uncle won that one, but lost another. In 1902 he sued to force the city to remove light poles and wires from Beach Boulevard because they were ugly and spoiled the view from his house at 402 N Beach. The case got to the state Supreme Court where the justices said that street lights are for safe passage of all the people and that even people living in palaces had to put up with a little inconvenience.
Thanks to that court ruling, you have lights on Beach Boulevard. Great uncle wasn't too happy about it but they couldn't let him stand in the way of progress, could they?
EATON J. BOWERS 1865-1939 CRC 20-41
[wif^ Tallulah Posey Bowers in 1-40]
I am here in place of my great-uncle, EATON J. BOWERS, buried here in 1939 at age 74. His wife, TALLULAH, called