Jan,

This Eells book is not indexed in a way that is easy to look up anyone. But this is what I can find on John L. Eells:

Nathanie Eells b. 1798 Catskill, d. Troy, NY about 1854.
children:
George (died young)
John Lewis Ells ( born at Macon, GA date unknown, married a Miss Ricart of Troy, NY. They lived in the South before the Civil War. He was a soldier in the Mexican War, and the Confederate Army, and is said to have been wounded but recovered, and died in Baltimore about 1880. Child: John Eells, a drummer boy in the Confederate Army.)
James
Fannie
Mary


This is all there is on John Lewis Eells/Ells. Hope it helps. Cindy