ELLER FAMILY ASSOCIATION REUNION

Rowan County, North Carolina

Summer of 1989

Dear EFA Members,

As you can see by the above announcement, an ELLER Reunion is being planned in the very near future. This, People, is going to be a FIRST. A nation-wide ELLER Reunion. We are making sure everyone has lot's of prior notice of this reunion by announcing it in THE ELLER CHRONICLES.

What we are seeking at this time is your individual/family responses, your ideas and suggestions, and hopefully your cooperation in helping out. our reunion will be as successful as the effort we all put into it!

Please read through the following information, check anything you would like us to know about and add your comments. Feel free to offer help by volunteering. Patricia Beck of Salisbury, NC, has graciously agreed to co-chair this event and Buddy Lovette, of Moravian Falls, NC, has volunteered to arrange tours of early ELLER property and historic sites.

This event will not be for EFA members only, but we hope to have many ELLERs from across the country, and perhaps one or two from Germany. If you know any ELLER or allied family who is interested in joining in the festivities, please copy the questionnaire and have them send it in. A gathering of this size will require a tremendous amount of planning and scheduling. We hope to have a good idea of the number planning to attend by August or early fall.

Remember, people, our Reunion can (and will) be a successful one. A. time to meet all the unknown faces you have written to in the past. A time to share information, a time to meet and make new friends, and a time to meet relatives you have never met, or rarely see. Join the fun and volunteer. Help make this reunion one you (and your family) will remember for many years to come.

Write to: Kathy Schoen
P.O. Box 162
Connell, WA    99326                    ph. 509-234-7631

PS. The following ideas have been taken from information sent to me by various organizations and individuals who have set up successful reunions.

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Summer 1989 Eller Family Association Reunion questionnaire.
Please return to Kathy Schoen by June 1, 1988.

1 am interested in attending the EFI reunion .
____ Yes ____ No ____ Maybe
____ Number of your family who-will attend. List age(s)

Committees needing volunteer help:

____family/group displays	____souvenirs	____registration
____memorabilia displays	____speakers	____accommodations
____liaison/family groups	____entertainment	____picnic at park
____activities for:	____babysitters	____advertisement
____children	____mini-classes	____presentations
____teens
____elderly

What would you like to learn more about concerning your Eller genealogy; genealogy in general? Do you have a problem(s) or a specific interest you would like to learn more about? Please list below.

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4.

Ideas/suggestions for speakers/presentations. Here are a few ideas. If you are interested, please mark Add your own ideas/suggestions on a separate sheet of paper.

1. 1. Do you know of anyone who has ELLER research they would present as a class or lecture?
2. Do you, or anyone you know specialize in: war service records, immigration, county courthouse records, computers in genealogy (beg. & advanced).?
3. Have you written a book? Would you like to present it to the EFA for review? Would you like a display set up to sell the books?
4. Are you a local historian/genealogy buff who would like to present a class or lecture?
5. Are you a member of a Historical/Genealogical Society? Would you be willing to set up/give a presentation to the group concerning your Society and it's holdings, etc.?
6. Are you a musician? Would you be willing to help organize entertainment? (for example: set up entertainment at the picnic)
7. Would you be able to set up and run a P. A. system? projectors, etc.?
8. Are you a photographer? Do you know one in the area willing to take group/family pictures for a fee? We would need to know fees prior to reunion & have a time frame set up. weekend work??
9. Are you interested in a chartered bus tour of Historic Eller sites in Rowan County and vicinity?

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PRESIDENT/ EDITORS PAGE

Membership in the Eller Family Association has reached 1263 the last seven came from Admiral Earnest McNeill Eller who provided memberships for his children and grandchildren. What an excellent idea for a gift. How about considering a paid membership for a relative when you are next searching for a gift. We still are shooting for 200 members by the end of 1988 and we must depend primarily upon the members and readers to supply names and addresses of prospective members.

Charlotte Eller Marshall has been working hard in recruiting members to serve an the Board of Directors and in framing proposed By-Laws for the Association more about this in the Aug. Newsletter.) Also, Charlotte and Kathy Schoen are serving as the chief movers and shakers for the 1989 National Eller Family Reunion scheduled for Salisbury, NC. .............................................. J. Gerald Eller

This is the largest Newsletter published to date and it resembles a Journal more than a Newsletter. This is especially true when we have such excellent material as that provided by the several contributors to this issue. The new postal rates gives us concern but we hope to be able to continue to have at least 24 pages in each issue while holding membership rates at the present level.

Some members delay sending in family group sheets and ancestral charts because of their incompleteness. We urge members not to delay for this reason since a major objective of the Association is to help members "fill the holes" in their own records.

New features are planned for upcoming Newsletters. We begin publishing from the "McCubbins Collection" in August. This extensive compilation at 'the Rowan Public Library, Salisbury, NC , prepared from the life-long collections of Mrs. Mamie McCubbins, has many records pertaining to the early Ellers of Rowan Co., NC. M. A. Reece has provided us a chronolgy of all Eller records from this Collection and permission has been granted by the Library to publish these in the Newsletter. Kathy Schoen examines microfilm census records an a regular basis and has begun to extract all Eller records for publication. We invite others to follow this example and extract Eller records you may find and allow us to publish them. In this way the Newsletter can serve as a clearing house for all types of information. We would like to develop a plan where a member would serve as an "editor" for a particular type of record. For example, Kathy Schoen might be the editor or coordinator for all census records. Others might prefer to work on military records, land records, etc. If interested in this proposition, please let us hear from you. One word of caution, be sure when extracting to record a complete citation of your source
...................................Juanita & Gerald Eller

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The PURPOSE of the ELLER FAMILY ASSOCIATION is to draw all Ellers, 'regardless of their particular family line, and allied family members into a cooperative effort to:

1. to promote a sense of kinship and consciousness of family history and tradition;

2. to promote and publicize local family reunions;

3. to hold an Annual Meeting of the governing body in conjunction with a family reunion; and

4. to encourage and aid genealogical and historical research on Eller and allied families in the United States and Europe.

(Eds. With our two members from West Germany we are beginning to reach the international community and we will continue to publish information as it is received from Germany and other countries.)

JUANITA REUTZ, of Jonesboro, Tennessee

KATHY SCHOEN, of Connell, Washington

BYRON H. ELLER, of Oroville, California

A. WILLIAM ELLER, of Lakewood, Colorado

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