I found our connection to the Eich family through my wife's grandmother, Katherine Braun, whose mother was Charlotta Henrietta Eich. Charlotta was one of the original 12 siblings, who were sons and daughters of master miller, Friederich Ludwig Eich, and his wife, Catharina Elisabetha Steckel Eich, who immigrated to the United States in the late 1840s and early 1850s.