MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER
AND TWO OF HIS MANY SONS:
My paternal grandfather who came to the United States as a child as a Niehaves/Neuhaus/Newhouse until taken in by the Eilers who probably knew his family in Germany or the Netherlands: Bernhardt ("Barney") Eilers with two of his 10 (?) sons. For their very large family, hunting was a big source of food up in Michigan -- Click on the photo if you want to look at those German faces. Later Barney had a black eyepatch that, with his gruff-speaking, tough manner, made him scary as a pirate. 
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