David Edmond Steele (1815-1905) - Find a Grave Memorial

David Edmond Steele

Birth

2 Dec 1815

North Carolina, USA

Death

30 Sep 1905 (aged 89)

Menlow, Hill County, Texas, USA

Burial

Scotts Chapel Cemetery

Aquilla, Hill County, Texas, USA Add to Map

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David E. Steele was born in NC, 1815. His father, Thomas Steele moved the family to Arkansas where David married in 1842 Margaret Carroll. David and Margaret moved to Texas in the early 1850's and settled in Hill County near Menlow and Aquilla, living there until their deaths. David and Margaret's children: Margaret J. b.1843, John Wesley b. 1845, Phebe Ann b.1846, Samuel N. b.1849, Thomas C. b. 1850, James Layfette b.1854, Salneca Saluda,b.1857, Preston Jenkins b.1858, Joseph b.1861, M. Stanford b.1864 and Sophie b.1866. They are buried near Menlow, TX in Scotts Chapel Cemetery.

In 2013, DNA tests were done on G-G-G-grandson Malcolm Steele, AZ, son of Chester Louie Steele, TX, son of Jonathan Ervin Steele, TX, son of John Wesley Steele, AR, son of David E. Steele, NC, who is the son of the above mentioned Thomas Steele, NC-AR, 1786-1862.

Paternal DNA is delivered from father to son to g-son to G-g-son and so on. The results of the test were done with FamilyTreeDNA, ftdna.com. The results have been matched with several other Steele's who have had the DNA test also.

Inscription

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
In this field of green.
The name and date are chiseled out
For all the world to see.

It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I'd exist,
You died long before I was born.

Yet we are of one, you and I,
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the life you lived
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.

Author Unknown