Henry D Steinbeck

• Residence: 1850 - Lewis county, part of, Lewis, Virginia
• Residence: Spouse: Julia Ann Capito - 1860 - Weston, Lewis, Virginia
• Residence: 1860 - [Blank], Lewis, Virginia, United States
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Henry D. Steinbeck BIRTH 4 Feb 1801 Petersburg, Grant County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 4 Sep 1881 (aged 80) Reedyville, Roane County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Troy IOOF Community Cemetery Troy, Gilmer County, West Virginia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102995275/henry-d_-steinbeck

Children Photo Louesa Steinbeck Swisher unknown–1853

Photo Daniel F Steinbeck 1831–1906
Photo Perry G. Steinbeck 1833–1869
Photo John W. Steinbeck 1835–1881
Photo George William Steinbeck 1842–1903
Photo Nancy Elizabeth Steinbeck Law 1845–1925
Photo Francis Eckert Steinbeck 1849–1905

GEDCOM Note

Henry D. STEINBECK. Son of Frederick STEINBECK, born in Berlin, Prussia and Sarah "Sally" ECKHART/ECKERT who may have been born in Maryland. Frederick was a Ohio River fur trapper, flatboat operator, Innkeeper, farmer, and did Virginia road maintenance. Sarah remarried(morgan BYRNS) and continued to run the inn in Romney, VA. after Frederick's death in 1823.

The story Dollie told was that Henry, a hired hand of Daniel CAPITO, a "wealthy and respected leader of his community," owned a large Virginia tanyard which manufactured shoes and other leather goods. Daniel's youngest daughter Julia and Henry fell in love... the family didn't approve of the marriage as "Henry was beneath her." She refused to give him up and was disowned... sent away with nothing but a few belongings and her personal maid.

The known facts: Julia was 15 when her father drowned crossing a river and the estate took two years to settle. Her mother died when she was 16. A year later she married Henry who was then 24 year old. They had their first child, Sarah Ann, when she was 19.

Henry's uncle Daniel STEINBECK, brother of Frederick, and great uncle of Frankie Louise (Dollie) STEINBECK was a partner in Steinbeck & Reinecke (Reineche), German traders who had establishments at Cape Girardeau & Little Prairie, also at New Madrid, MO in 1808. They dissolved their partnership before Daniel died in PA.

Obituary, "The Weston Republican" of September 16, 1881 (Lewis Co.,WV):

On Tuesday last, 6 inst., the sad and painful duty devolved upon us of consigning to their last earthly tenement -- the bosom of mother Earth -- the mortal remains of 'Squire Henry Steinbeck, and Lewis County mourns the loss of one of the most worthy of her sons.

The deceased 'Squire was of Prussian descent from the father's side and of English descent from the mother's. His father was long engaged in the Fur Trade with the Indians along the Ohio River. He himself was born in Petersburg, Hardy County, in this state, in February 1801, so that his death he had reached the venerable age of nearly 81 years. He married Miss Capito of Franklin, Pendleton County, and settled near Jane Lew about 40 years age, since which he has fully identified himself with the rise, progress and interests of Lewis County, discharging faithfully all the duties of a good citizen and an honorable man, and revered and beloved by all whom business or the amenities of social life brought into contact with him.

He filled the office of Sheriff for several years and for about twenty years he officiated in the Courts of Justice in our county, and in the discharge of the duties of these public offices he gave unqualified satisfaction to the community.

'Squire Steinbeck hand already had two attacks of Paralysis, one about 8 years ago, and a second and slighter one about two years ago. The third, as usual, proved fatal. On the 4th inst., near Reedville, Roane County, where he had gone to visit his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, he departed this life.

It is not easy to find words that will do adequate justice to the many virtues of such a citizen as Mr. Steinbeck -- virtues that were implanted in him in his early youth by pious parents, that strengthened with his manhood and became venerable in his old age. Suffice it to say that he was charitable to the poor, hospitable to the stranger and honorable in the minutest as well as the most important of his transactions with his fellow man. His kind word and helping hand were ever ready to cheer or to assist a distressed neighbor; and while one of these neighbors lives, his memory will abide fresh, sweet and green in the community in which he resided.

Perhaps one of the most attractive traits of his many agreeable qualities -- and one which showed the innate nobility of his disposition and kindness of heart -- was that no one ever heard from his lips that tale of scandal or the calumny of his neighbor. Alas! this charitable silence is only too rare!

"Squire Steinbeck was a man of excellent business habits, and might be reckoned almost a self-made man. One of his last business acts was one well worthy of him, and consistent with his benevolent life. It was to secure a home in Roane County, for his widowed daughter-in-law and her orphaned children.

He was at heart a true Christian, his words and acts proved it; and to his intimate friends he has expressed his hope and his faith. We have full trust that he is now rejoicing in the presence of the Heavenly One, who delights to look down upon a sinless and blameless life, and who loves to reward it. In the words of the poet, he
"Has gone from this strange world of ours,
No more to gather its thorns with its flowers
No more to linger where sunbeams must fade
Where on all beauty death's fingers are laid.
Weary with mingling life's bitter and sweet
Weary with parting and never to meet.
Weary with sowing and never to reap
Weary with labor and welcoming sleep.
In Christ may he rest from sorrow and sin
Happy, where earth's conflicts enter not in."

(Note: The deceased son was Christian Henry Steinbeck, who died 21 March 1879, and the daughter-in-law was Christian's widow, Araminta Price Ruhl Steinbeck.)