JOHN ELLER
John Eller, a son of David Eller and a brother of Jesse, came to this vicinity in March, 1855, and pre-empted a farm on section 20, where he now lives. He is the descendent of Peter Eller, a Hessian soldier, who came to this country during the Revolutionary War, in the service of Great Britain, and who soon left that service and settled in North Carolina. John was born in Indiana, where his parents had removed some years before, in 1832, and moved with his parents in 1837, to Jefferson county, Iowa. He came to this county and remained until 1857, when he returned to Jefferson county, where he enlisted, in 1862, in Company H, Thirtieth Iowa Infantry, and served with that regiment until the close of the war. He was at the siege of Vicksburg, battle of Jackson, Mississippi, siege of Atlanta, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea after the war, he returned to Jefferson county, where he remained until September, 1866, when he returned to his farm in this township. His wife was a Mary Jane Parnell, who was born in Wayne county, North Carolina, in 1834.
Transcribed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 790.
