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REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER SAMUEL STEELE



BURIAL SITE:

Mount Comfort Cemetery, 8 miles north of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri

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TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION: SAMUEL STEELE / N.C. MILITIA / REV. WAR

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Samuel Steele was born in Pennsylvania in 1762 and moved to Burke County, North Carolina, with his parents, as a child. He volunteered for the North Carolina militia when he was just a teenage boy. After the war he married Jannett "Jane" Luckey, daughter of Robert and Mary (Holmes) Luckey, and remained in Burke County for a number of years.

It is family tradition that Samuel and Jane Steele were neighbors and close friends of Elisha and Mollie Headlee in Burke County, North Carolina. The two families lived somewhat parallel lives as they also lived near each other in Maury County, Tennessee and in Greene County, Missouri.

Families from Maury County, Tennessee were among the first settlers in the Springfield, Missouri area. Elisha Headlee's son John came in 1832. Others of the Headlee brothers followed, and in the fall of 1836 Elisha joined them in Greene County. After Samuel Steele's wife Jane died in about 1840, he moved to this area, according to his pension papers, "to be with most of his children."

Samuel Steele is said to have been a Presbyterian in his youth, but became a Methodist. Five of the grandsons shared by Samuel Steele and his long-time friend Elisha Headlee were Methodist ministers, all ordained at Mitchell's Meeting House in Greene County.

Samuel Steele died at age 85 in 1847 and was laid to rest in Mount Comfort Cemetery, 8 miles north of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.

This grave was marked with a government headstone by the Rachel Donelson Chapter DAR around 1911. The Ozark Mountain Chapter SAR held a dedication service on May 17, 1997. An SAR insignia marker had been placed at his grave several years earlier, presumably by the Ozarks-Hougendobler Chapter SAR, the predecessor of Ozark Mountain Chapter.


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