Annie Tilton (née Annie Powers Henderson), was the great niece of the Rev. William Woodward Eells [1811-1886] of Pittsburgh. The latter had bequeathed to the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, a portrait of Samuel Eells [1640-1709]. In 1924 the fraternity, which had been founded by another Eells ancestor, gave the portrait to Mrs. Tilton. She in turn donated the picture (now in the NGA) to the Milford [Connecticut] Historical Society for the Eells-Stow House, the Milford home built by Samuel Eells in the 17th century.
Bibliography
1920
Eells, Emma Seymour. A History of the Eells-Stow House in Milford, Connecticut. Milford, 1920: 5-22.
1954
Duncan, Harriet Eells, compiler. "Notes on Portrait of Samuel Eells [including excerpts from letters, 1949-1953, Mrs. Benjamin E. Tilton to Earnest E. Eells]." 26 January 1954, manuscript in curatorial file for NGA 1971.83.15.
1966
Eells, Reverend Earnest Edward. The Eells Family History. Cambridge, Mass., 1966: 3-15.