My great-great grandfather was Sebastian Steltzlen from Alsace-Lorraine, France. He was born Sept 1842. During the war Alsace-Lorraine changed hands many times between the French and German's. Sebastian came to America in 1873. He married Hannah ?. (It's possible her maiden name was Whitney). Their eldest son was William "Willie" Whitney Steltlen. They also had Manley Sebastian Steltzlen,
Lizze M Steltzlen and Maud Mae Steltzlen. My great grandmother was Maud Mae Steltzlen-Fuller.
Sebastian and his family lived in Nebraska, and Arkansas. I have a photo of his family in Nebraska, standing in a field with their sod house in the background. (My great-great grandmother was also born in Nebraska on 11 Aug 1883)