Robert Steele

Robert Steele

• BIRTH 1728 - New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
• DEATH 12 Aug 1781 (aged 52–53) - Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, USA
• BURIAL Old Fourth Creek Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, USA Show Map
• PLOT Row 3 Grave 5 - MEMORIAL ID 37644028 · View Source

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37644028/robert-steele

Son of Samuel Steele (d. 1760, Chester, PA) and Anne Futhey (d. 1790, Chester, PA). Married Jane Chambers in about 1762 in Rowan, NC. Jane was born Feb. 14, 1744, in Lancaster, PA, and died about 1825 in Cape Girardeau County, MO.

Some claim that Robert is Samuel's brother's son, i.e., son of Ninian Steele and Mary Futhey. However, in Newton Chambers Steele's book "Captain Ninian Steele and His Descendants", 1901, he states "It is not known what Ninian Steele's father's given name was, but I think from the evidence I have found that it was Samuel and that he (Ninian) had two brothers in North Carolina named Samuel and Robert..."

Robert was quite possibly the first Steele in his lineage born in America. He was arguably the son of Samuel and Anne Futhey Steele. By some accounts, he was killed in the Revolutionary War (1775-1783).

Robert came to the Yadkin Valley from Chester, PA. He was a schoolmaster. His land grant was between the Third Creek and Fourth Creek in their upper reaches away from the South Yadkin River.

Robert's stone is the second to the right from his brother Ninian's stone and just to the right of a single stone marking the graves of two of Ninian's children, Samuel and Robert.

Inscription: Here lies the body of Robert Steel (sic) who died August 12, 1781, aged 53 years.

• Elizabeth Steele 1767
• Jane Jennett (Steele) Cowan 1768
• ROBERT STEEL 1774 m. MARY GILLILAND
• Samuel Steele 1776
• James Steele 1777 m. Martha Luckey
• Mary Steele 1779 m William H. McKnight
• Henry Franklin Steele, Sr 1781 m Elizabeth Anderson Knox
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 21 2018, 23:34:42 UTC