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Dallas, Texas, 75249
February 19, 1991
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A. William Eller
Eller Family Association
370 Upham St.
Lakewood, CO., 80226-1625
Dear Sir:
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I began researching my family about a year ago. My mother knew nothing about her grandmother. I have had very little information to work with. You have extensive research on the Eller family at the North Carolina Archives. I found your address there as I was searching for a clue to my great-grandmother. Her name was Amanda Eller, She was born between 1857 and 1861 depending on which source I am referring. She married George W. Comer 1-12-1878 in Wilkes Co., N.C. I am trying to find a lead to her parentage. North Carolina did not require birth records at that time and there is no record of her death in Russell Co. Virginia in 1929. I have been led to believe that Eller was her mothers mane and that she was illegitimate. A cousin told me her mother told her that and it was not discussed any further. She was never told the names of Amanda's parents. I know the answer lies somewhere I just do not know how to get to it. In your Eller file at the archives in the 1870 Wilkes Co. Census she is listed living with the Barber family. I am sure that is her. She was placed with the Barber family I was told because her mother could not care for her. Something else that must tie in is that in your 1850 Census Allen Whittington married an Eller. In the 1870 census it shows Allen to have two sons, Benjamin and Thomas. When Amanda married A. M Whittington married her and witnesses were T. S. Whittington and B. Whittington. In 1850 a Hugh Eller married a N. Darker Some way the Ellers, Barkers, and Whittingtons tie in, but I do not know where to turn for the answers. Social Security did not begin until after her death so there is no lead there for her parents. Do you know of some direction that I might try to gain this information or might there be someone in your association that remembered hearing of such a child?
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| Sincerely Yours,
Louise Westfall |
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