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About Levi Daniel Eiland:
Levi Daniel was principal of Tampa high school in 1904. Marie were married in l903 after they both
finished Normal school in Jasper, Fla. in that same year.
LEVI DANIEL EILAND (1877-1967) was
the first postmaster of the Elfers post office when it was established on Dec. 14, 1909. He was born
in Dade City on July 7, 1877. In the 1900 census he is shown as a boarder living in Jasper, Florida,
Although he is said to have founded the Jasper Normal School. He was the principal of the Tampa Grammar
School in 1903 when he married his wife, who chose the name Elfers for the post office. He is shown
as living in Suwannee county in the 1917 military registration index. A 1922 newspaper article reported
that Dan Eiland was planting a five acre tract at Seven Springs, in early vegetables, and that his friends
in Elfers have missed him since he moved to Seven Springs and they wish him success with his venture.
He died Jan. 4, 1967, in Gainesville, where he and his wife are buried.
1930 Census - Odessa,
Pasco Co, Fl
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Name: Levi Dahiel Eiland City:
Wellborn County: Suwannee State: Florida Birth Date: 7 Jul 1877 Race: White Age: 41 Occupation:
bookkeeper and salesman, A ? McLeran Co, Wellborn, Fl Nearest Relative:Frieda Marie Eiland Height/Build:
Tall/med Color of Eyes/Hair: blue/dark
Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 Name: Levi D Eiland Death
Date: Jan 1967 County of Death: Alachua State of Death: Florida Race: White Gender: Male
About Frieda Marie Bolling:
The name for the town of Elfers was chosen by Frieda Marie (Bolling) Eiland (1884-1981), the wife of
the first postmaster. Her mother's maiden name was Maria Elfers.
FRIEDA MARIE (BOLLING) EILAND
(1884-1981) chose the name "Elfers" for the post office which was established on Dec. 14, 1909. A postal
history source lists her husband Levi Daniel Eiland as the first postmaster of Elfers, but in a 2001
letter, Elizabeth "Beth" Eiland Bedenbaugh, a daughter, wrote: "My mom was the post mistress (my dad
was occupied with a job with J. M. Mitchell there in Elfers). The post office was new and mom was asked
to give the town and post office a name. She chose Elfers because that was her mother's maiden name."
Frieda Marie Bolling was born July 24, 1884, in Louisville, Ky. After the death of her father in 1889,
she moved with her mother and a brother to Apopka, Florida. On July 29, 1903, she married Levi Daniel
Eiland at the home of her mother in Apopka. Rev. Marvin Jones Eiland, a son, was born at their Seven
Springs home on April 20, 1922. She died on Sept. 19, 1981, in Deland. The father of Frieda Marie Bolling
was Gottlieb Frederick Bolling, who died in 1889. The maiden name of the mother of Frieda Marie Bolling
was Maria Elfers; she died in Tampa in 1915. [Jon James and Terri Allen provided information for this
and the preceding entry.]
About Dorothy Eiland:
Died at age 7 in Branford, Fl
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