Downtown Business District of Salem, NJ, ca. 1930-1940

William Elben, born 1817 in Maryland

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania
New Jersey: Deptford Township, Gloucester Co.;
Salem and Elsinboro Townships, Salem Co.
Maryland: Easton, Talbot Co.; Millington and Galena, Kent Co.;
Hillsboro, Caroline Co.; Baltimore, Baltimore Co.;
Cecil Co.; Flintstone, Allegany Co.; Harford Co.
Delaware: Duck Creek, Kent Co.

Eleventh Generation

This page was updated by Mara French on 2/10/15. An asterisk (*) shows continuation of that line. I am not responsible for the content although I researched it to the best of my ability as a hobby. For additions, corrects, or deletions, click Contact.

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Eleventh Generation

Children of James F. Elben, Jr., 10.4

11.1* James F. Elben, III, b. 12 Oct 1962 in Bowie, Prince George’s County, Maryland, m. Danielle M. Getsinger, b. 1971-1975.

Children of William “Bill” Cooper Elben and F. Grace Davis, 10.5

John, Patty, Karen, Sherry, and Mike Elben

11.2 Sheree L. Elben, b. 7 Feb 1963, m. Dale L. Patrick of Easton, had daughter, Casey Lynn Patrick at Memorial Hospital in Easton on 7 Sep 1985.

11.3 Karen L. Elben, m1. Julio Brennick and had daughter Jodi Marie Brennick ca. 21 Jan 1981, m2. Eli Haddaway and resides in Tilghman Island, Talbot County, MD. She works at Shore Health Systems, studied at Chesapeake College, and was from Cordova, MD. FaceBook: “Karen Haddaway”.

11.4* Michael “Mike” Wayne Elben, b. 4 Mar 1959, has red hair, lives in Easton, MD. Email: elb1Mike@gmail.com. He has 2 horses, “Cutter” and “Daisy”.

Marriages

He m1. Linda Swann (who m2. Terence Earl Adams on 25 Jan 1991) on 8 Mar 1980 and separated 23 Feb 1987, divorce was final Oct 1990. Linda’s email: awayigo47@aol.com.

Michael m2. Teresa Lynn. Teresa was b. 12 Jul 1961, d. 28 Mar 2005, in Cordova, Talbot Co., MD. They had daughter Samantha “Sammi” Cooper Elben. Terry was an airline stewardess and then went to Virginia Tech to become a veterinarian. Tragically, Terry was a melanoma survivor and it recurred during and/or after her pregnancy. Sammi was born in July. Terry learned she had multiple brain tumors in October that year and passed in March of the following year.

Mike m3. Rebecca (Becky) for 7 years.

Mike m4. Laurie.    

Photo taken in May 2013 by Mara French. Second photo is of Mike and his father Bill and in the center is a John Deere Manager, unrelated.

Operations appeal notice to return payments

By BRUCE HOTCHKISS
Senior Editor

EASTON, Md. — Three prominent Eastern Shore farm operations and other landowners whose land they farm are appealing an order by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service that the farms return payments they have received since 2006 for conservation projects on their land. 
NRCS says the contracts, under which the payments were made, were erroneously drawn and were therefore invalid.
The farmers respond in turn that the contracts were drawn with the aid and counsel of agents of the NRCS itself.
A total of some 16 contracts are in dispute, according to NRCS figures. 
They represent payments of more than $1 million.
The farm operations are headed by Michael Elben and the Hutchison Brothers in the Cordova area and Sonny Eaton in Queen Anne.
Each farmer submitted contracts not only for the home farm but for other land held and worked under sharecropping or other arrangements as they had been counseled to do by state NRCS representatives.
The contracts were drawn in 2005.
Five years later, they were informed that all of that land should have been under one contract. “Corrective action” was required.
The contracts, under the counsel, the farmers said, and with the assistance of state NRCS officials, were redrawn accordingly into single contracts in the names of Elben, Hutchison Brothers and Eaton.
Jon Hall, state NRCS director, assured those who held contracts that since the scheduled CSP projects for which the contracts had been drawn were, in good faith accomplished, “we are waiving cost recovery.”
Federal NRCS headquarters didn’t buy into that, Hall said.
He was told the state office had no authority to forgive repayment.
Hall said he protested, to no avail. The ruling would stand. 
Elben, the Hutchison Brothers and Eaton and their fellow landowners received invoices for the return of the money, even though each of them in good faith, had performed the conservation projects for which they had contracted.
All of this emerged from what was known then as the Conservation Security Program, CSP. 
It was described, in a 30-page federal document, “as a unique program that goes beyond the past approach to repairing on-farm conservation problems. 
“Instead, CSP offers rewards to those who have been good stewards of the soil and water resources on their working agricultural land. 
“It also offers incentives for those who wish to exceed the minimum levels of resource protection and enhance the natural resources on the land they manage.”
Elben, the Hutchisons and Eaton qualified as did other farmers in the state, and as did, Maryland NRCS Director Jon Hall said, other farmers in key watersheds in Ohio, Arkansas. Nebraska and Missouri.
CSP was offered to Maryland farmers in the Choptank and Nanticoke watersheds, according to CSP working documents.
The Conservation Security Program, authorized in 2005, is now known by the same acronym but another name because it was not reauthorized in the 2008 Farm Blll . 
It is now known as the Conservation Stewardship Program. 
Its failure to win reauthorization negated all of those old CSP contracts under which the first checks to those selected to participate were issued in 2006.
The first round of letters, four years later, from Hall at NRCS headquarters in Annapolis, to all 16 who held CSP contracts, were dated Sept. 22, 2010.
The letters advised that “corrective actions (are) required on your Conservation Security program contract.”
It advised all sharecropping or land rent landowners to “transfer your remaining CSP contract obligations” to the one of the three principal farmers.
Grace Elben, Michael Elben’s mother, held one of those contracts. 
Hall’s letter to her said: “Your contract payments to date are $102,888. The termination of your contract is subject to cost recovery, which would include a refund of all contract payments to date, interest and up to an additional 20 percent of the total financial assistance to recover administrative and technical services involved.
“However,” the letter added, “since you have performed the scheduled CSP contract activities in good faith, we are waiving cost recovery.”
On March 22, Grace Elben got another letter, also from Hall, along with an invoice for $102,888.
“This action is required,” Hall wrote, “because NRCS is required to carry out the Office of the Inspector General’s finding that erroneously representing your operation was in violation of 7C.F.R. #1469.200(b) which made the contract ineligible from the beginning.”
“We did everything they asked us to,” said Michael Elben. “The whole thing is ridiculous and unfair.’
He recalled that about a year into the program, he got a phone call to be at the Talbot County NRCS office. 
“They said an auditor from St. Louis was going to be there, and I needed to be there. Everything was recorded,” he said.
That was the last he heard until the Sept. 22 letter arrived.
Richard Hutchison said he and the other farmers all sought assistance at the NRCS office, which in turn sought counsel from the state office, because no one was sure how to fill out the contracts.
“You read the documents and it wasn’t clear how to sign up,” he said. 
“We went out of our way to find out what to do,” Hutchison said. “That we intentionally misrepresented, or erroneously represented our farm operations in any way is absolutely untrue.” 
Hall stressed that the state agency had made every attempt at remediation of the cost recovery process, adding “but we were told, straight out, that that was outside of our authority.”
Elben, the Hutchisons and Eaton late last week were awaiting instructions of the next step in the appeal process.
There is some hope among those advocating for the farmers that the appeal process can be avoided. 
Said Maryland Ag Secretary Buddy Hance: “We understand that approximately 15 producers have been notified of CSP eligibility violations from 2006. Those producers should use the appeal process and we will do everything we can to support them and resolve these issues as soon as possible.”

11.5 Patricia “Patty” E. Elben, m. Sidney S. Campen and resides in Oxford, MD.

11.6* John Cooper Elben, b. 12 Feb 1970, runs Elben Logging LLC in Cordova, Talbot County, Maryland at 12252 Voshell Rd. near Tappers Corner Road in Cordova. He m. Deborah “Debbie” Ann Bringman on 2 Mar 1991. John and Debbie attended Chesapeake College. John was employed at Lebanon Fertilizer Company when they married.

From the Star-Democrat, Easton, Maryland, 14 Apr 1991.

Children of Thomas “Fleetwood” Elben and Ruth E. Wright, 10.7

11.7 Barbara Elben, born ca. 1958 most likely in Denton, MD, m. Roy Kisling of Pasadena, Maryland, living at 102 Mary Rd., 410-439-3122. Email: bkisling@hotmail.com.

11.8 Janet Elben, b. 25 Jul 1960, m. David Thomas of Federalsburg, Maryland. They lived at 6809 Dion Rd., Federalsburg, MD. They had children Matthew Thomas and Jennifer Thomas.

11.9* T. (Thomas) Dale Elben, b. 5 Jul 1969 in Milford, Delaware, d. 18 Jul 2004 in Okeechobee, Florida. He m1. Jennifer Kay just after 30 Aug 1992, m2. Linda Lane, had 2 children (twins), Randy and Michel Elben.

From the Star-Democrat, Easton, MD, 30 Aug 1992

Linda Lee Elben was born in 1969. Linda currently lives in Federalsburg, Maryland. Before that, Linda lived in Hurlock, MD from 1995 to 2002.

Dixon House names new administrator Federalsburg's Linda Elben to head senior care facility

Posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

EASTON The Dixon House Independent and Assisted Living is pleased to announce that Federalsburg's Linda Elben has been appointed as Administrator.

In this leadership role, she is responsible for coordinating and managing the daily operations of The Dixon House, including the overall care of the residents, and support of their families and caregivers.

"We are delighted to welcome Linda and confident that her expertise, enthusiasm and dedication to improving the lives of seniors will allow her to effectively direct day-to-day operations, and guide the staff to success," said John Atwood, president of The Dixon House board of directors.

Elben brings more than 20 years of related experience, training and education to her new position. Prior to joining The Dixon House, she was program director for the Pleasant Day Medical Adult Day Care Center in Cambridge; developed care plans for seniors as a social worker for the Caroline County Health Department Geriatric Services Unit; and was a social work discharge planner for The Memorial Hospital at Easton. She holds a Master of Arts in Social Work with a specialization in aging from the University of Maryland, coupled with studies in Human Services Management.

"I am honored to be chosen to lead one of the oldest non-profit organizations in Talbot County," said Elben. "Working alongside our dedicated staff, we will continue the more than 100 year tradition of The Dixon House and provide residents a safe, comfortable, enriching home environment."

Elben is a lifelong resident of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and currently resides in Federalsburg.

The Dixon House is a spacious and elegant Victorian house located at 108 N. Higgins Street in Easton's historic district. Founded in 1911, the Dixon house offers affordable independent and assisted living for senior men and women.

Obituaries, July 20, 2004, from the Daily Okeechobee News.

T. Dale Elben, 36

DENTON, Md. - T. Dale Elben of Denton died Sunday, July 18, 2004, in the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. He was 36.

Mr. Elben was born in Milford, Del., son of T. Fleetwood and Ruth Wright Elben of Denton.

He was a graduate of North Caroline High School, class of 1986.

Mr. Elben was a welder for Towers Concrete Products, Inc., Denton.

In addition to his parents, he is survived by two sons, Michael J. Elben and Randy J. Elben, both of Burrsville; and two sisters, Barbara Kisling of Pasadena, and Janet Thomas of Federalsburg.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Moore Funeral Home, P.A., 12 S. Second St., Denton.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

Burial will be in Denton Cemetery, Denton.

Instead of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Caroline Hospice Foundation, PO Box 362, Denton, MD 21629.

Children of Jim Elben and Ellen, 10.8

11.10 Robby Elben, b. 15 Mar 1976, lives at 10229 Tuckahoe Rd., Denton, Caroline Co., MD 21629, robby.elben@gmail.com. He studied Computer Information Systems at Chesapeake College. He m. Laurie Delosier on 11 Oct 2008.

Twelfth Generation