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From: Patricia Eakins <>
Subject: Re: EAKINS-D Digest V02 #15
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:58:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200204281800.g3SI0KZ27170@lists7.rootsweb.com>


Sorry to clutter up the list with so many e-mails all saying the same
thing, and some in error. At the risk of being a complete bore, here's a
revision. According to the family stories of Linda Grinder and others, my
great-great-grandfather David Eakins and Thomas Eakins's grandfather
Alexander are brothers. Thomas's father Benjamin and my great-grandfather
Clem I, patriarch of Rye, are first cousins. Thomas Eakins and my
grandfather Clem II are second cousins. My dad Jesse and his brother Clem
III are Thomas Eakins's kids' third cousins. I would be a fourth cousin of
Thomas Eakins's grand-kids and a second cousin twice-removed of Thomas Eakins.

The Samuel Gross who married Cora May Eakins cannot be the Samuel David
Gross of Thomas Eakins's painting "The Gross Clinic," because that man was
70 years old when Thomas Eakins was in his thirties, according to one
on-line biography I found. However, Cora May might have been married to
Samuel Weissel Gross, S.D. Gross's son, also a well-known physician. But
would that couple have been in Keswick IA in 1897, as one Eakins board
poster has reason to believe?

I am still wondering if Clara Maria MacDowell, married to Samuel Tigert
Eakins,. the brother of my great-grandfather, was related to Susan
MacDowell, Thomas Eakins's wife. Samuel Tigert was of the generation of
Thomas Eakins's father Benjamin. However, Susan MacDowell was apparently
from a large family. Was Clara Maria a much older sister? An aunt of
Susan? I would love to figure this out.

Patricia



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>EAKINS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 15
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> #2 Re: reply: Eakins []
> #3 Re: Eakins Family Tree []
> #4 Re: Eakins-email []
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>______________________________X-Message: #1
>Date: 27 Apr 2002 17:13:02 -0600
>From:
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>Subject: Re: Samuel Eakins
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>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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>Surnames: Eakins MacDowell Gross
>Classification: Query
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>Message Board URL:
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>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DSU.2ACIB/7.25
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>Message Board Post:
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>I believe that you are looking for Samuel Tigert Eakins, the brother of my
>great-grandfather. He was married to Clara Maria MacDowell, and they had
>a daughter named Cora May Eakins, who was married to Samuel Gross. We
>believe that the painter Thomas Eakins was a cousin of my
>great-great-grandfather, David Eakins, and that Samuel Gross is the
>"Gross" of the Gross Clinic painting. Can you confirm?
>
>______________________________X-Message: #2
>Date: 27 Apr 2002 17:26:53 -0600
>From:
>To:
>Message-ID: <>
>Subject: Re: reply: Eakins
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>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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>Surnames: Eakins MacDowell Gross
>Classification: Query
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>Message Board URL:
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>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DSU.2ACIB/18.23.26.104
>
>Message Board Post:
>
>Dear Jill,
>
>I believe that my great-grandfather, Clemmons Eakins, was a cousin of
>Thomas Eakins. His father, David Eakins, was a
>brother of Benjamin, Thomas's father. David had another son, Samuel
>Tigert, who was married to Clara Maria MacDowell--possibly the sister of
>Thomas Eakins's wife, Susan MacDowell. Samuel and Clara had a daughter,
>Cora May Eakins, who was married to Samuel Gross, possibly the Gross of
>the Gross Clinic painting. Does this tell you anything about possible
>connections?
>
>Patricia
>
>______________________________X-Message: #3
>Date: 27 Apr 2002 17:43:50 -0600
>From:
>To:
>Message-ID: <>
>Subject: Re: Eakins Family Tree
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>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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>Classification: Query
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>Message Board URL:
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>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DSU.2ACIB/1.3.25.32.2
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>Message Board Post:
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>We believe that our Eakinses went from Belfast/Ulster to Pennsylvania. My
>great-great-grandfather was David Eakins,
>born in 1782 and married to Maria Ray McGregor. The family went from PA
>to Illinois then Iowa.
>
>Samuel Tigert Eakins, the brother of my great-grandfather, was married to
>Clara Maria MacDowell, and they had a daughter named Cora May Eakins, who
>was married to Samuel Gross. We believe that the painter Thomas Eakins
>was a cousin of my great-great-grandfather, David Eakins, that Samuel
>Gross is the "Gross" of the Gross Clinic painting, and that Clara Maria
>MacDowell is the sister of Susan MacDowell, the wife of Thomas
>Eakins. Any connection to your group in Pennsylvania?
>
>______________________________X-Message: #4
>Date: 27 Apr 2002 18:05:29 -0600
>From:
>To:
>Message-ID: <>
>Subject: Re: Eakins-email
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>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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>Classification: Query
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>Message Board URL:
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>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DSU.2ACIB/18.30.37.40.45.86.88
>
>Message Board Post:
>
>Your great-great-grandfather was a first cousin of Thomas Eakins. Aha! I
>believe that my great-great-grandfather, David, was a brother of Thomas
>Eakins's father, Benjamin, (son of Alexander), which makes Thomas Eakins
>and my great-grandfather Clemmons (or Clemens) first cousins as well.
>
>Samuel Tigert Eakins, the brother of my great-grandfather, was married to
>Clara Maria MacDowell, and they had a daughter named Cora May Eakins, who
>was married to Samuel Gross. We believe that Clara may have been the
>sister of Thomas Eakins's wife Susan and that Samuel Gross is the "Gross"
>of the Gross Clinic painting.
>
>Can you shed some further light on all this?
>
>Patricia Eakins

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