OBIT: Elizabeth A. (LANDIS) STEEL, 1915, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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MRS. ELIZABETH STEEL.
Mother of C. A. Steel Died at Home in Huntingdon

  After a lingering illness, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Steel, widow of the late 
Samuel A. Steele, died at her home, 318 Mifflin street, Huntingdon, 
Tuesday, October 12, at 2:40 o'clock.  Mrs. Steel had been in failing 
health since July, and for the past two weeks had been confined to her 
bed, where she became gradually weaker until she passed away.
  Mrs. Steel was a daughter of Major Jacob and Mary Landis, deceased, 
and was born  at Middletown, Pa., July 15, 1843, being aged at death 72 
years, 2 months and 17 days.  In her girlhood days, Mrs. Steel attended 
Lititz Seminary, in Lancaster county, and is [sic] was there that she 
met Mr. Steel who was also a student at the seminary.  Following her 
marriage to Mr. Steel at Middletown, February 27, 1864, she removed to 
Huntingdon, where she has since resided.  Mrs. Steele was a member of 
the Presbyterian church.  She was the mother of eight children, the 
following of whom survive:  G. Landis and R. M. Steel, Mrs. E. G. 
Phillips, and Mrs. F. B. Bayer, of Huntingdon; C. A. Steel, of Tyrone, 
and Mrs. F. E. Colony, of Renovo.  The two children deceased are Samuel 
McCulloch Steel who died in childhood, and Harry E. Steel, a prominent 
druggist of Huntingdon who died November 10, 1914.  Two brothers, 
Robert F. Landis, of Middletown; William F. Landis, of Toledo, Ohio, 
and a sister, Mrs. J. C. Fezzell, of Grand Island, Nebraska, also 
survive.
  Funeral services were held at her late home, 318 Mifflin street, 
Huntingdon, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. R. P. Daubenspeck, 
D.D., officiating.  Interment in Riverview cemetery.
  
Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, October 21, 1915, page 5