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Surname: Steel, McAllister, Roseberry
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Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp.
485-486
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
BASIL STEEL, deceased, one of the early settlers of Sheffield Township,
who was well and favorably known throughout the county, was born in Maryland,
November 28, 1801, of English and Welsh ancestry. When a lad of seven years
he was taken by his parents to Ross County, Ohio, where he was reared on
a farm and received his education in the pioneer schools of that State.
In early manhood he made nine trips to New Orleans on a flatboat, and was
engaged in the milling business for five years in Ohio. He was married
at the age of thirty-one years to MISS MARTHA A. McCALLISTER, a daughter
of DANIEL McCALLISTER, who was of Irish parentage. Four of the eight children
born to this union are yet living--ELIZA A., widow of GEORGE ROSEBERRY,
residing in Sheffield Township; JAMES M., a carpenter and contractor of
Lafayette; BURTON, and RUTH E., wife of A.F. WELLS, of Stockwell. Of their
children who are deceased, JOHN died in early childhood; MARY died aged
twelve years; WINFIELD was a member of Company A, Fortieth Indiana Infantry,
and died in defense of his country at Missionary Ridge, in October, 1863,
when in his nineteenth year; DANIEL W. died April 25, 1886, leaving a wife
with two children.
BASIL STEEL lived in Ross County, Ohio, until 1846, when he came to Tippecanoe
County, Indiana, and bought 320 acres of land on section 21, Richardsville
Reserve, this land having been partly improved by WILLIAM EATON, a prominent
pioneer of Sheffield Township. Here MR. STEEL made his home until his death,
September 28, 1870, and by his upright and honorable life he gained respect
of all who knew him. In politics in former years he was a Whig, becoming
identified with the Republican party on its organization. He was a consistent
member of the Presbyterian church. His widow survived him a number of years,
dying April 27, 1885.