Famous Ancestors
- The Honorable M. Adela Eads, Grandmother
- Legislator
- Majority Leader, CT Senate
- Minority Leader, CT Senate
- President Pro Tempore, CT Senate
- Captain
James Buchanan Eads (USN), Distant Ancestor (1820-1887)
- American Engineer
- Advised Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War
- Inventor of the Iron Clad Ship
- Built the First Bridge Across the Mississippi River
- Awarded Albert Medal by the Royal Society of the Arts
- August Acocella, Grandfather, US Army Air Corps, (1919-1986)
- 324th Fighter Group, 316th Fighter Squadron
- Served in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France
- 1st Lt. Charles Acocella, Grand Uncle, US Army, (-1944)
- 1st Cavalry Division, KIA at Leyte in the Pacific
- Silver Star[1]
- Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Clusters
- G. Vernon Eads, Esq., Grandfather (1910-2001)
- Civilian, War Department, 1941-1945
- Steel and Forging Industries
- President, G.V. Eads & Co, Inc. (1948-2001)