Eller, George Michael

ELLER, MCCOY, MCNIEL, MONTGOMERY, PECK, VAN VALKENBURG

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 2/26/2006 at 13:36:12

From “GEORGE MICHAEL ELLER and Descendants of His in America,”
Compiled by JAMES W. HOOK, New Haven, Conn. 1957, KATHLEEN ELLER was the daughter of DR. LLOYD ROSCOE ELLER (1880-1951) of Fairfield, and his wife BESSE A. MCCOY (1881-1958). DR. L. R. ELLER was son of ALEXANDER H. ELLER (1848-1911) and his wife LUCY J. PECK (1850-1932). LUCY J. PECK was the daughter of CAPT. WINTHROP D. PECK and his wife SARAH VAN VALKENBURG, who are buried in Abingdon Cemetery, Jefferson County, Iowa. ALEXANDER HAMILTON ELLER was the son of JOHN CLEVELAND ELLER (1822-1892) and his wife JANE REBECCA MONTGOMERY. JOHN CLEVELAND ELLER was son of SIMEON ELLER (1794-1850) and his wife FANNY MCNIEL. FANNY MCNIEL was a granddaughter of REV. GEORGE MCNIEL…chaplain in the regiment of COL. BENJ. CLEVELAND at King’s Mountain…See DAR Patriot Index.

Page 392, ELLER Genealogy. “The MCNIEL Family claims descent from one of the noblest clans of Scotland, which traces its ancestry without interruption through a long dynasty of Irish kings to NIALL of the Nine Hostages who ascended the Throne of Ireland in the year 379 A.D. Before that, according to the Irish chroniclers, the line runs back to NIALL of Scythia and beyond him to FENIUS the Antiquarian, son of HOATH, son of MAGOG, son of JAPHET, son of NOAH. No more interesting treatise of any family exists than that entitled ‘The Clan MACNEIL’ by The MACNEIL of Barra, chief of the clan, published 1923 by the Caledonian Publishing Company. It tells a fanciful story of how one NIALL of Scythia was invited into Egypt by Pharoah CING?RIS and of the great work he accomplished in regulating the flow of the Nile River, which was named for him. He married Princess SCOT?, the Pharoah’s daughter who rescued MOSES from the bulrushes, and by her had a son, GAEDHAL, or GAEL, after whom the race was named….”