Bradford STEELE & Ruth WHEELER

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             Husband: Bradford STEELE (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)

                Born: 31 AUG 1762
          Christened: 17 JUL 1763 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (13)
             Married: 07 MAR 1785 in Oxford Congregational Church (52 53)
                Died: 24 DEC 1841 (14 15)
              Buried: in Congregational Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (16)
              Father: Bradford STEELE
              Mother: Mary PERKINS
             Spouses:

                Wife: Ruth WHEELER (17 18 19 20)

                Born: 17 SEP 1765 (21)
          Christened: 17 NOV 1765 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (22)
                Died: 20 FEB 1856 (23 24)
              Buried: in Congregational Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (25)
              Father: Simeon WHEELER
              Mother: Sarah BALDWIN
             Spouses:

Children

01               (M): Edmund STEELE
                Born: 04 APR 1788 (26)
                Died: 08 APR 1840 (27)
             Spouses: Anna TUCKER

02               (F): Sally STEELE
                Born: 07 MAY 1791 (28)
                Died:
             Spouses:

03               (M): Ashbel STEELE
                Born: 08 AUG 1793 (29)
                Died: 23 SEP 1794 (30 31)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (32)
             Spouses:

04               (M): William STEELE (33)
                Born: 14 FEB 1798 (34)
                Died: 24 NOV 1874 (35)
              Buried: in Congregational Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (36)
             Spouses:

05               (M): Burr STEELE (37)
                Born: 07 JUN 1800 (38)
                Died: 11 AUG 1823 (39)
             Spouses: Betsey MALLETT

06               (F): Susan STEELE
                Born: 17 DEC 1802 (40)
                Died: 11 OCT 1804 (41)
              Buried: in Methodist Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (42)
             Spouses:

07               (F): Almira STEELE (43 44 45 46 47 48)
                Born: 22 FEB 1810 (49 50)
                Died: 20 MAR 1885 (51)
             Spouses: John W. HOLCOMB; Henry P. DAVIS

Footnotes

Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 27, 61.
[http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp27.htm
http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp61.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan83.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 647 - 648, 762.
1790 Derby Census.
1800 Derby Census.
1820 Derby Census.
1830 Derby Census.
1840 Derby Census.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 437.
Ibid., 241.
... enlisted about July 10, 1777, in the regiment commanded by Col. Enos, being then not quite sixteen years of age. he was taken prisoner at the battle near Fort Independence, Aug. 22, 1777, and confined at first in the 'Sugar House' and later on a prison ship in New York harbor. He was exchanged Aug. 16th 1778 ... in later years largely engaged in local manufacturing industries ...
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
[http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan85.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Statford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886), 1336.
Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 474.
Church Records.

[http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/474.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 648.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 82.
Steele, Dea. Bradford, died Dec. 23, 1841, age 80 yrs. (Revolutionary War Marker, Flag).

[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan82.html.]
Ibid., 82.
Smith, Mary A., died Sept. 17, 1863, age 55 yrs.
Kinney, Anna S., wife of William, died Oct. 1, 1867, age 76 yrs.
Kinney, William, died June 25, 1856, age 73 yrs.
Smith, Col. Ira, died Nov. 9, 1822. (Flag)
Smith, Rachel, died Mar. 12, 1863, age 80 yrs.
Steele, Burr, died Aug. 11, 1823, age 23 yrs.
Steele, Sarah, wife of Capt. Bradford, died May 13, 1826, age 80 yrs.
Steele, Betsey, wife of Burr, died Apr. 7, 1821.
Wheeler, David, died Dec. 21, 1829, age 53 yrs.
Steele, Dea. Bradford, died Dec. 23, 1841, age 80 yrs. (Revolutionary War Marker, Flag).

[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan82.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
[http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan85.html.]
1850 Seymour Census.
[Living w/ daughter Almira & family.]
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 437.
Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Statford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886), 1336.
Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 314.
Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 476.
Church Records.

[http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/476.html.]
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 762.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan83.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 763.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan83.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 763.
Ibid., 763.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
[http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan85.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 763.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
[http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan85.html.]
1870 Seymour Census.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 763.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan83.html.]
Ibid., 83.
Steele, Edmund, died Apr. 8, 1840, age 52 yrs.
Steele, Anna T., wife of Edmund, died July 22, 1871, age 87 yrs. 8 mos.
Steele, William, died Nov. 24, 1874, age 77 yrs.

[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan83.html.]
Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 413.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 763.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 82.
[http://oxfordpast.net/sycgcemscan82.html.]
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 763.
Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
[http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan85.html.]
Ibid., 85.
[http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan85.html.]
Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 242.
... of Derby ...
1850 Seymour Census.
1860 Seymour Census.
1870 Seymour Census.
1880 Seymour Census.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 437.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 763.
1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Union Cemetery, Seymour (Union Cemetery, Seymour), 30.
Ibid., 30.
W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 33.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 762.

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