When John Steele was born on 9 December 1845, in Jessamine, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Miethem Steele, was 31 and his mother, Sarah McDowell, was 24. He married Margaret Barkley on 20 January 1868. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Keene, Jessamine, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 3 Keene, Jessamine, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 10 November 1918, in Jessamine, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1853: Jessamine, Kentucky, United States
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.
English: variant of Stile .
Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.
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