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Henry Eaton
Bar-B-Q Man Extraordinaire
"Papa Henry" to some, Henry Eaton could very well have been called Patches. "He
always wore coveralls with patches all over them," says Frances Koachman. He'd
change out of one pair of coveralls into another - with more patches.
Mr. Bar-B-Q would have been a name not too far-fetched, as well, for Mr. Eaton was the
the Bm--B-Q man for the historic M~artin's Bar-B-Q, the very first employee ~
Kapchinske hired when he opened his restaurant in 1928. His smoke technique and
sauce recipe have sup,4ved him through seventy-five (75) years and four (4) generations
of the Kapchinske blood line.
"For big cater/~jobs, like weddings and Texas A&M football ~es, Henry wotfld have
to fire up both pits, one inside and one outside," recalls Mrs. Koachman who, at the age
of eight (8) - when driver's 1/censes were not requ/red - would drive Mr. Eaton between
College Station and Martin's Bar-B-Q in the family's Model T, at Sulfur Springs and
College Avenue.