Family
Eve was married to Anne Moore in Christ Church, Philadelphia on June 2, 1744. The couple had thirteen children, of whom seven died in infancy.
One daughter, Sarah Eve, was an intimate friend of the family of Dr. Benjamin Rush, with whom she was eventually engaged to be married. However, In September 1774, she came down with a lingering illness, believed to have been tuberculosis, and died just three weeks before their wedding was to take place on Christmas of that year.
Another of Eve's sons, Joseph, came under the tutelage of Dr. Rush and became a medical doctor.
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“When one family builds a wall, two families benefit from it.”
—Chinese proverb.
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