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Thank You for coming by and visiting my dearest Grandma Alice. Your visit is so appreciated by our family. God Bless.

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༺⊰❁ Alice Roosevelt Powell Steinberger was the daughter of William Hon and Cora (Heare) Powell, born on August 28, 1903 in Selma, Ohio where she lived during her younger years. She was petite, hard working, and good in business.
Ralph Irvin Steinberger was the childhood sweetheart and true love of Alice. They married on November 29, 1924 in Springfield, Ohio by Rev. C. D. Munsey, clergyman of Central Methodist E. Church, at the minister's home. Witnesses: Cecile Young (Alice's friend), Glen Derr (Ralph's cousin), Warren R. Shuirr (Ralph's Aunt Clara's husband).
Ralph and Alice settled in Springfield, Ohio. Together they had three children.
Known children of Ralph and Alice (Powell) Steinberger:
1) John "Jack" William Steinberger, born October 3, 1925 in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio;
2) Joanne Steinberger, born July 29, 1926 in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio; death: January 7, 1990 Houston, Harris County, Texas; and
3) Meriel Anna Steinberger, born August 1, 1930 in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio.
Their children were born at home and Ralph delivered all three children before the arrival of the attending physician, Dr. William B. Quinn.
In 1934 Grandpa Ralph and Grandma Alice purchased a farm in South Vianna, Ohio, and soon the family moved to their new home where they no longer would go hungry. Grandma Alice was always busy caring for her family, making most of their clothing, cooking, baking, tending the garden, canning food, making root beer, hauling water, and keeping a spotless, clean home. It was here on the farm the family flourished. During the harvest season the men would gather to bring in the harvest and Grandma Alice always cooked wonderful meals for them. One of the men bragged on her cooking saying his plate just wasn't large enough, so the next year and each year thereafter he was given a platter to eat from instead of a dinner plate. Everyone got a laugh over it. My Grandma Alice was an excellent cook. She made the best soft rising bread ever that she would slice and smother with melted butter. Her deserts were always spectacular and often served with homemade ice cream.
In 1947-48 Grandpa Ralph and Grandma Alice purchased property along Lake Milakokia in Gould City, Michigan. The family moved to their new property and soon began building their resort, Berger Resort, with the help of Wilford LaLund. It was located along the area of Beaver Bay on the lake. It wasn't long before a family of beavers also settled in whom everyone fell in love with, so it seemed appropriate to change the resort's name to Beaver Bay Resort. There were always chipmunks and squirrels scampering about, the occasional visits from the otters, many raids from raccoons, and prowlings from bears and panthers.
The cabins were always full during the summer months, and during the cold months there were the occasional ice fishermen and hunters. Grandma Alice kept the books, was responsible for the reservations, always busy cleaning, cooking and baking. Everyone always looked forward to the resort's weekly fish fry they gave for the vacationers to get some of Grandma's delicious food.
In the early 1970's they began to think of their retirement and built a ranch home next to the resort. Before they could move in Alice's beloved Ralph was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. My Grandma Alice nursed my Grandpa Ralph to the end, never once complaining, because she loved him dearly.
After Grandpa Ralph passed on Grandma Alice moved into the ranch home in the fall of 1973. She soon sold the resort to Lawrence and Shirley Slack, who had one daughter and four sons. During the week of my Grandpa Ralph's birthday in July of 1975 the family gathered one last time on Milakokia Lake. The day of my Grandpa's birthday we visited his grave site, went up along Lake Superior, and over to the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie. It was this day we saw the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. From there we returned to my Grandma Alice's home. That evening the moon was full and beautiful in the sky and I sat out on one of the double chairs made by my Grandpa. The lake sparkled as if diamonds of white liquid fire had been scattered down from heaven across the night black rippling waters of Lake Milakokia, and above in the midnight blue sky sailed a full pale moon so large and round. The moon seemed to almost touch the trees and dip down into the lake for a summer's night swim in the waters. It seemed like a gift from my Grandpa and a beautiful end to a wonderful time in a land of dreams called the Beaver Bay Resort...
In the fall of 1975 my Grandma Alice moved to live with her daughter Joanne in Houston, Texas. When Joanne passed away in 1990 Grandma moved to Brighton, Michigan to live near her son, my Uncle Jack, her eldest child and only son.

On 12/13/1992 Grandma Alice passed away from old age in Milford, Oakland County, Micigan. She was the last of her siblings to pass on. Grandma Alice was buried next to her beloved and is still loved and missed by many. Rest in God's peace and love.

The cabins which were once the Beaver Bay Resort are now individually owned.

Wyckoff and Poling Linage

Claes Cornelissen Van Schouwen, or
Claes Nicholas Wyckoff
(9th Great-Grandfather)
Son of Cornelius Petersson and Johanna Van Der Goes
Birth 03 April 1597 (or 1601) in Brouwershaven, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherlands
Death 30 June 1674 in Flatlands, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Married Margaret Van Der Goes Wyckoff
(9th Great-Grandmother)
Birth about 1601 in Middelburg, Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
Death 2 August 1631 in Zierikzee, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherlands

Pieter "Peter" Claessen Wyckoff (Van Schouwen I)

(8th Great-Grandfather)
Son of Claes Nicholas Wyckoff
Married Margrietje "Grietje" "Margaret" Cornelissen Van Ness Wyckoff
(8th Great-Grandmother)
Birth in 1627 in Reusel-De Mierden Municipality, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Death 11 September 1689 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA

Marten Claesen Wyckoff
Son of Pieter "Peter" Claessen Wyckoff Van Schouwen I
(7th Great-Grandfather)
Birth May 1663 in New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
Death 26 February 1707 in Gravesend, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Married Hannah Willemse Wyckoff
(7th Great-Grandmother)
Birth 1656 in Flatlands, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Death 1724 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA

Margaret Grietje Wyckoff Poling
Daughter of Marten Claesen Wyckoff
(6th Great-Grandmother)
Birth 30 March 1684 in Gravesend, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Death April 1734 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
*Married Samuel Poling
Son of John and Elizabeth "Mary" Fry Poland
(6th Great-Grandfather)
Birth 1680 in Gravesend, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Death 1732 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA
NOTE: "Both Margaret and Samuel are mentioned in the Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. III on page 793.
"The Wyckoffs are also mentioned in this book: "The Washington ancestry and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families" talking about how 16 Wyckoff families left New York and moved into New Jersey and purchased over 1,200 acres of land in Somerset County, NJ." Stella, member No. 4 7 8 4 8 9 4 8.

Martin Cornelius Poling, Sr.
Son of Samuel and Margaret Grietje Wyckoff Poling
(5th Great-Grandfather)
Birth 1708 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
Death 1770 in Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
Married Sarah Wells Poling
Daughter of Thomas and Mary Hopkins Wells
(5th Great-Grandmother)
Birth 27 May 1710 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
Death 1782 in Loudoun County, Virginia, USA

Jonathan Poling
Son of Martin Cornelius Poling, Sr.
(4th Great-Grandfather)
Birth 1749 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
Death 19 January 1823 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
Occupation: Circuit Riding Methodist Minister
Married Sarah Poling (Maiden name unknown)
(4th Great-Grandmother)
Birth in 1750
Death Unknown
Reverend Jonathan and Sarah Poling had only one living child named John Poling. Due to Rev. Jonathan being a clergyman there are little records for him. After his death in 1823 Sarah likely remarried, which has caused no further information to be revealed concerning Sarah.

John Poling 1797-1850
Son of Jonathan Poling
(3rd Great-Grandfather)
Birth 30 April 1797 in Hampshire, Virginia, USA
Death 6 June 1850 in Hampshire, Virginia, USA
Married Mary Wilson Poling
(3rd Great-Grandmother)
Birth 2 July 1799 in Hampshire, Virginia, USA
Death 16 September 1887 in Hampshire, Virginia, USA

Mary Catherine Poling Heare
Daughter of John and Mary Wilson Poling
(2nd Great-Grandmother)
Birth 28 August 1837 in Virginia, USA
Death 3 MAY 1898 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio, USA
Married Jonathan Washington Heare
Son of James and Abigail Pownall Heare
(2nd Great-Grandfather)
Birth 18 October 1833 in Virginia, USA
Death 25 September 1901 in South Charleston, Clark County, Ohio, USA

Cora Susanna Heare Powell
Daughter of Jonathan and Mary Catherine Poling Heare
(Great-Grandmother)
Birth 15 June, 1865 at Mad River (Selma), Clark County, Ohio, USA
Death 23 May 1955 in Springfield Clark County Ohio USA
Married William Hon Powell
Son of John Briggs and Caroline Hon Powell
Birth 27 November 1855 in South Charleston, Clark, Ohio, USA
Death 29 May 1918 in Dolly Varden, Clark County, Ohio, USA

Alice Roosevelt Powell Steinberger
Daughter of William Hon and Cora Susanna Heare Powell
(Grandmother)
Birth 28 August 1903 in Selma, Clark County, Ohio
Death 13 December 1992 in Milford, Oakland, Michigan, USA
Married Ralph Irvin Steinberger
Son of Harry E. and Dolly Derr Steinberger
Birth 23 July 1905 in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio USA
Death 29 August 1973 in Gould City, Mackinac, Michigan, USA

Meriel Anna Steinberger Sterling
Daughter of Ralph Irvin and Alice Roosevelt Powell Steinberger
(Mother)
Birth 1 August 1930 in Springfield, Clark, Ohio USA
Death 31 October 2014 in Cheviot, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio USA
Married Robert Leroy Sterling
Son of Percy Lester and Elva Simpson Sterling
(Father)
Birth 18 November 1925 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA
Death 9 November 1999 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA

Again Grandma Alice's research has proven impeccably accurate. Alice has provided enormous amounts of accurate genealogy information, which if anyone deviates from it they are 99.9% of the time WRONG. Thank you to Grandma Alice and thank you to our cousin Constance Steinberger Bair who provided a wealth of information after countless hours of research and contacting other relatives and historians. I am sure they are resting peacefully and happily in Heaven.

❈ References:
1) Constance Steinberger Bair, member of Daughters of the American Revolution,
2) Alice Powell Steinberger,
3) Meriel Steinberger Sterling,
4) John "Jack" William Steinberger,
5) Ralph E. Steinberger,
6) Mary L. Sterling

THANK YOU to Hans for the addition of the photos of my Grandma Alice, and for assisting in preserving family photos which are fading with time. We appreciate everything he has done for the family.╰⊰✿

Thank You to Ryan for sponsoring my Grandma Alice's memorial. His giving spirit will always be remembered.

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