Brief Life History of Mahonri Moriancumer
When Mahonri Moriancumer Steele was born on 1 May 1849, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, John Steele, was 28 and his mother, Catherine Campbell, was 32. He married Emily Bunker on 19 April 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He registered for military service in 1868. In 1910, at the age of 61, his occupation is listed as state land commissioner in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, United States. He died on 18 September 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Delta City Cemetery, Delta, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- Mohonori Steele in household of Jno Steele, "United States Census, 1860"
- U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970
- Mohonri Moriancumer Steele, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1864: Kane, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Kane, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Impressions Along Life's Highway
by Mahonri Moriancumer Steele, Jr. This article was copied directly from the first 22 pages of the book "Memoirs of Mahonri Moriancumer Steele, Jr." Family History Library book 921.73 St32j. Compile …
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