Alice P has passed on at age 98. I am a nephew continuing the family name Eckard research. I have a Public Family tree on ancestry. We have not established that our ancestors came from Germany. They would have come before the 1800's when it was called Bavaria. John Wesley Eckard Sr b 1830 was born to Moses Eckart b 1797. John had a son he named John Wesley Eckard Jr. b. 1860. He had my grandfather Charles Henry Eckard. Prior to that time previous to 1790 any records are hard to retrieve digitally on the internet especially since the first US census was in 1790. If anyone out there has info on that line please contact me at
chuceckard@aol.com. I live in the Sacramento area.