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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: Re: John ELLER
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:27:11 -0800 (PST)


At 09:41 PM 2/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi you guys!
>
>I just joined the group and I DO have a John ELLER.
>
>He is my gggg grandfather, b. in Frederick, MD between 1767 and 1769.
>He m. Susannah KERNS 5 Nov 1792 in Rowan Co., NC. He died in Wilkes Co, NC
>in 1823. He was buried in the Cleveland Cemetery but re-interred next to
>his wife in the New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery.
>
>John and Susannah KERNS ELLER had the following children:
>Simeon b. 1794 -- Simeon also had a son - John Cleveland ELLER (b. 1822 in NC)
>David b. 1796
>John Jr. b. 1798 -- another John who m. Elizabeth VANNOY
>Rachel b. 1800
>Absalom b. 1803
>Peter b. 1805
>Delilah (Gizzy) b. 1808
>Mary (Polly) b. 1810
>
>Several years ago, my husband and I visited the Wilkesboro, NC area. It is
>beautiful. We followed the Lewis Fork Creek for a ways. This is where the
>Eller farms were. There is an Eller Road in the area. We stopped at the
>New Hope Baptist Church Cem. and there are MANY Eller graves there.
>
>Anyone else have John and Susannah?? I am descended from their son Simeon,
>who m. Fanny McNiel.
>
>Regards,
>Trish
>

I have this line! I was right about ready to send in my Eller line when I
read yours! talk about coincidence! Do you have info going back from John?
I believe I do for at least one more generation if you would like it. I go
from John > Simeon > Jesse Franklin > Mollie, my g. grandmother and Also, I
go from John (again) > Rachel m. John McNiel

So we definitely connect. What child of Fanny are you from? I am from
Jesse Franklin (as above) and his dather Mollie m. William Heggie McNeill
who were cousins.

Erin Bradford

Listowner for Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, and Kern
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