Lemhi County ID Archives Obituaries.....Steele, David Marcellus (Mark) August 8, 1927
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Recorder Harold, 12 August 1927
David M. Steele, passed away at the Shaffer home in Salmon about six o’clock 
Monday afternoon, August 8, following an illness of several weeks with heart 
trouble.  Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Methodist 
church when elders of the Mormon church officiated.  Relatives and friends 
from the upper Lemhi valley and the Wood River country came to pay last loving 
tribute to a kind and loyal friend and neighbor.
Pall bearers were: Al Flood and Dan Bahm of Salmon; Peter Donnelly, J. E. 
Coates, Yenz Coates, Russell, Werry, all former neighbors of Mr. Steele in the 
Wood River country.
Internment was in the Salmon cemetery when great quantities of flowers banked 
the casket, fragrant tokens of remembrance of those who honored and loved Mr. 
Steele.
As a young lad of ten years, Mr. Steele came west from Iowa with an emigrant 
train of which his father was captain.  The family settled in Utah.  October 
5, 1869, at the age of 20, Mr. Steele and Sarah A. Card were united in 
marriage and established a home in the vicinity of Logan, where they lived 
until her death.  Later Mr. Steele came to Idaho, and December 1, 1888, in 
Idaho Falls married Miss Elizabeth Western, and this companion of many years 
survives and was untiring in her care of her beloved husband during his long 
illness.  The sick man was brought from Gilmore about a month ago to the home 
of William Shaffer, a brother of Mrs. Steele and where death came, as stated 
above.  The Steele family have lived in the upper Lemhi valley, since 1907, 
and moved to this county from Hailey.
Besides the widow, four sons and three daughters survive: Mark, living in 
Hailey; William, Durward, Hobson, Mrs. Horace Lipe and Mrs. Jessie Woodward of 
Gilmore, and Mrs. Harry Aune of Salmon.  Three children await their father’s 
coming in the beyond.
In the pioneer days in Utah, Mr. Steele acted as captain of the settlers 
banded together for protection from the Indians and rescued the Thurston child 
which had been kidnapped by the Red Men.

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