This part of our family starts in Elbergen, Germany. Where John EILERS marries Anna DALING, their son John G. EILERS, 1697-1755 married to Susanna LUCHTHAUS, 1713-??? have a son

Walberg EILERS 1719-1786 married to Otto HUMBERT, b???- d1792, have a son Henry Herman EILERS, 1751-??? married to Margaret TEGDERS, have a son Otto EILERS,1785-1858.

Otto EILERS, married to Anna POTTERING, have a son, Gerhard Herman EILERS, 1818-1906, married to Euphemia STEVENS, 1825 -1893, have a son John Herman EILERS, 1846-1912, died in Geddes, SD, married to Anna C. GRAWE, 1861-1910, have a son

Henry Herman EILERS, 1885-1944, died in Geddes, SD, married to Catherine Marie NIEHUS, 1891-1979, have a daughter, Marie Elizabeth EILERS, 1916-----, married to Paul Francis MAXWELL, 1913-1990,