Lynda Susan Arrington Eller was born on January 8, 1947, in West Point, Georgia, to Edward Lee Arrington and Lynda Claire Bradfield Arrington of Lanett, Alabama. She was the couple’s only child. Lynda graduated from Lanett High School in 1965. Following graduation, she was employed by F.W. Woolworth in West Point.

She married Don Eller on August 7, 1966, in the First Baptist Church in Lanett. Due to her husband's employment, the couple travelled in every state in the U.S. and lived in 42 of them. During those years, she found consistent employment in the retail industry.

Upon retirement, the couple returned to Lanett and opened a print shop and publishing house. Lynda found employment with Walmart and worked there in many capacities until she retired in April 2008 after 25 years as a Walmart Associate.

As Lynda was growing up, her grandmother, Hettie Bennett Arrington, lived with the family and told Lynda many stories of growing up in Heard County. Lynda’s interest was peaked when she found her grandfather’s lunch pail while cleaning the attic. In it was a land grant signed by President Zachary Taylor and addressed to the first school teacher in Cherokee County. Lynda’s interest in history and genealogy blossomed in 1976 while she was living in Virginia and frequented the Library of Congress and the state's large and small libraries.

Post retirement, Lynda was inspired, after putting together a family tree, to visit the Georgia Archives and the cemeteries and other locations in Heard County that pertained to her family history. When her husband suggested that she use her research and organizational skills to preserve the histories of local families, she put the information she had collected into narrative form.

As the Heard County historian, she created the Ancestor Files, which she dubbed “a meeting place of cousins.” It contained files on everyone listed in Heard County censuses from 1840 to 1900. She also collected information from people across the U.S. about their Heard County ancestors.

Over the years, Lynda and Don established and operated the Ancestor Files Genealogical Library Genealogical-Historical Research Center (Lynda Eller, director), Eller’s Instant Print (Don and Lynda Eller, owners); and Cedarland Enterprises (Don and Lynda Eller, owners). This led to their compilation and publication of ten books, including “Heard County, Georgia; A History of Its People" and the censuses from the 1800s and cemeteries of local counties. During this time, she edited and published “Heard Heritage,” May 1976 through November 1992, and “Randolph Pioneers,” June 1981 to August 1989. She became well known as a genealogist and historian in Heard and Troup counties, Georgia, and Randolph and Chambers counties, Alabama.

As a result of her work and publications, she was contacted by people throughout the United States whose family had a connection to one of the four counties for which she had collected genealogical and historical information. Lynda set up a room filled from floor to ceiling with folders full of correspondence and research information in response to inquiries. In addition, she created another room filled with reference books, pamphlets, and the publications of local historical societies for use by visitors seeking genealogical and historical information. Lynda also adapted to technology, becoming involved with several online sites specializing in genealogical data.

Lynda Eller was a member of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society and member/contributor to the Heard County Historical Society. She and her husband also attended and participated in local, state, and national printing and genealogical/historical conferences. To expand her professional skills, she earned a Certificate of Completion from Snead State Junior College for the Beginning Course in Genealogy.

Linda also employed the skills she had learned from her carpenter to draw the interior of countless mobile home and house plans, including window and door locations, electrical outlets and fixtures, and built-in and furniture placements to scale, completing the measurements to the fraction of an inch. In addition, she had an artistic flair, doing chalk drawings of women from the 1960s and 1970s and landscapes.

Lynda’s interests also included animals. She cared for many cats at their compound in Huguley, some of whom adopted her. She was also passionate about the environment, collecting and making scrapbooks of good environmental practices and subscribing to nature magazines.