Fayette County PA Archives Bibles ..... STEELE Bible: Selected entries from the Journals of Josiah V Thompson ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty ************************************************ Mrs Ruth Steele's (widow of Hervey J. Steele) Jefferson Tp, Fayette Co, Pa May 17, 1922 10:05 AM Mrs Steel has gotten out the family Bible of her father in law, John Steele which is a large well preserved Book published by Lippincott Grainbo & Co Phila in 1851. The book is to line 32 in length & to line 26 in width. It is a red backed book filagreed in gold. The record from the Bible which is well & finely written is as follows: Marriages John Steele married to Mary Jackman Mch 6, 1850 Harvey J. Steele married to Ruth Luvenia Nutt Jany 1, 1873 James S. Forsythe married to Mary E. Morton Oct 4, 1876 May Steele married to Ewing B. Patton June 1, 1898 Gertrude Steele married to John B. Cunningham June 1, 1898 Chas H. Steele married to Lillie B. McKean Nov 5, 1902 John R. Steele married to Maude Mae Smith Dec 9, 1903 V6 Page 454 Nell G. Steele married to Chas S. McKean Apr 4, 1911 Maria Steele married Dec 31, 1833 Ruth Steele, married Nov 17, 1835 Elizabeth Steele, married Feby 12, 1839 Nancy Steele, married Nov 29, 1842 Matilda Steele, married Apr 19, 1848 Johnson Steele, married Apr 27, 1849 John Steele, married Mch 6, 1850 Harvey J. Steele married Jany 1, 1873 May Steele married June 1, 1898 Gertrude Steele married June 1, 1898 Chas H. Steele married Nov 5, 1902 John R. Steele married Dec 9, 1903 Nell G. Steele married Apr 4, 1911 Births John Steele was born Aug 31, 1822 Mary C. Steele was born Aug 26, 1830 Children of John & Mary Steele 1. James Hervey Steele was born Feby 9, 1851 2. Robert Finley Steele was born Nov 15, 1852 Mollie T. Morton was born Nov 13, 1855 Jas S. Forsythe was born Dec 2, 1845 Lillian S. Forsythe was born July 27, 1877 John Morton Forsythe was born May 19, 1880 Jesse Hunter Forsythe was born Oct 22, 1881 Raymond Dixon Forsythe was born Oct 19, 1885 Robert Forsythe was born Dec 27, 1886 V6 Page 455 William Steele was born July 22, 1779 Sarah Elliott was born Apr 23, 1789 Maria Steele was born Nov 11, 1807 Johnson Steele was born Apr 15, 1809 William C. Steele was born Jany 20, 1811 Elizabeth S. Steele was born Sept 25, 1813 Ruth Steele was born Feby 17, 1816 Nancy Steele was born July 29, 1818 Matilda Steele was born Aug 30, 1820 John Steele was born Aug 31, 1822 Charlotte Steele was born Apr 20, 1825 James Steele was born Dec 5, 1827 Michael Steele was born Feby 1, 1831 James Niccolls was born May 23, 1850 (Mrs Steele says this is a son of Elizabeth S. & James Niccolls & dying young is buried at Rehoboth as is his mother. James Niccolls afterwards married Johnson Steele's widow). John Niccolls Bigham was born Mch 10, 1854 Mrs Steele says he was son of Nancy Steele who married a Bigham who was no good & she left him & the children were divided around. John Steele & wife took John N & Lizzie, who later married Joe Chalfant. Nancy Bigham went to Mt Union O & kept boarders & died & is buried there. John N. Bigham went there on a farm given to him by John Steele. His Uncle & was killed there in 1915. A son is living close to the college & has his 2d wife. V6 Page 456 James Harvey Steele was born Feby 9, 1851 Ruth L. Nutt was born March 31, 1854 Their children: Charles Harvey Steele was born Feby 5, 1874 Mary Steele was born Aug 31, 1875 Gertrude Steele was born Jany 16, 1877 John Randolph Steele was born June 27, 1880 Nellie Grayson Steele was born Dec 10, 1888 Virginia Steel Patton was born Feby 28, 1899 Ruth Margaret Cunningham was born Nov 30, 1899 Margaret Steele Cunningham was born Nov 15, 1902 Jane Caird Steele, was born Mch 20, 1904 [margin note reads:] Dau of Chas I noted John Logan Harvey Steele, was born May 13, 1906 Nell Rankin Cunningham was born Nov 3, 1906 [margin note reads:] Chas children [next four listed] Donald Cameron Steele was born May 25, 1907 Charles McKean Steele was born Aug 30, 1909 May [or Mary] Jane Steele was born June 1, 1912 James Harvey Steele was born Mch 24, 1918. [margin note reads:] John's children [next three listed] Dorothy Nutt Steele was born Oct 26, 1907 Mabel Luella Steele was born June 12, 1910 John R. Steele Jr was born Apr 13, 1913 & is the 13th grandchild. Ewing B. Patton was born Apr 1, 1871 John Bennett Cunningham was born Aug 13, 1872 Lillie Burt McKean Steele was born Dec 12, 1877 Maude Mae Smith Steele was born Sept 20, 1881 Clarence S. Hough was born Dec 13, 1869 Chas S. McKean was born Aug 7, 1884 (Mrs Steele says Ewing B. Patton was a son of Finley Patton of Rehoboth & his wife who was a sister of Ewing B. Porter of Uniontown Pa. V6 Page 458 Alice Lucetta McKean was born Oct 27, 1912 daughter of Charles S. & Nell G. McKean. Deaths Robert Finley Steele died Feby 28, 1854. He fell in a tub of hot water & was scalded to death dying same night. Morton Forsythe died Sept 24, 1886 Ewing B. Patton died Aug 24, 1898, died of Nervous prostration following an illness of two weeks from typhoid fever. John Steele died Dec 7, 1897 Mary C. Steele died Aug 6, 1905 Harvey J. Steele died Apr 7, 1914 Matilda Steele died Aug 14, 1849 William Steele died Aug 19, 1850 Elizabeth Niccolls died Aug 21, 1850 James Niccolls (baby) died Oct 13, 1850 Sarah Steele died Mch 13, 1855 Johnson E. Steele died in Ohio Mch 16, 1855 Richard F. Steele died Oct 1855 Ruth S. Craft died May 5, 1889 Maria Niccolls died Sept 15, 1890 Nancy Bigham died Dec 7, 1890 James Steele died 1864 Charlotte S. Nixon died Aug 2, 1894 ----------