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Rev Earnest Edward Eells

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Rev Earnest Edward Eells Veteran

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
30 Nov 1981 (aged 89)
Florida, USA
Burial
North Sebago, Cumberland County, Maine, USA Add to Map
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Chaplain WWII; Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File


Son of Edward Beauregard Eells and Annie E. Auchmoody per online family tree(s). Additional documentation welcomed.


Edward Earnest Eells, the son of Edward Beauregard Eells and Annie E. (nee Auchmoody) Eells, was a minister and historian. He married Ada Louise Cox (1892-1951 or 1961) with whom he had two sons, Calvin Edward Eells and David Clark Cox Eells. Rev. Eells' father was a Congregational minister and his great grandfather, Christian Wiltberger Jr., was active in the American Colonization Society.


Rev. Wiltberger was active in the Eells Family Association and edited a history of the family. He also transcribed and edited an unpublished journal of George Whitefield and published an article entitled Indian Missions on Long Island. He lived at various times in North Sebago, Maine, and East Hampton, Long Island. He died in November 1981 in Lakeland, Florida.


Eells, Earnest Edward. Indian Missions on Long Island in Journal of the Department of History of the Presbyterian Church Vol. 19, no. 3 (September 1940), p. 99-109.

Chaplain WWII; Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File


Son of Edward Beauregard Eells and Annie E. Auchmoody per online family tree(s). Additional documentation welcomed.


Edward Earnest Eells, the son of Edward Beauregard Eells and Annie E. (nee Auchmoody) Eells, was a minister and historian. He married Ada Louise Cox (1892-1951 or 1961) with whom he had two sons, Calvin Edward Eells and David Clark Cox Eells. Rev. Eells' father was a Congregational minister and his great grandfather, Christian Wiltberger Jr., was active in the American Colonization Society.


Rev. Wiltberger was active in the Eells Family Association and edited a history of the family. He also transcribed and edited an unpublished journal of George Whitefield and published an article entitled Indian Missions on Long Island. He lived at various times in North Sebago, Maine, and East Hampton, Long Island. He died in November 1981 in Lakeland, Florida.


Eells, Earnest Edward. Indian Missions on Long Island in Journal of the Department of History of the Presbyterian Church Vol. 19, no. 3 (September 1940), p. 99-109.

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Number: 269



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