Steele - Elmina
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal,Crawfordsville, 13 April 1900
Mrs. Elmina Steele, relict of Wm. S. Steele, died last Saturday about one o'clock at her home on South Washington street She was eighty-nine years of age and had been ill all winter. She was born in Ohio, but came to this place sixty-seven years ago. Her only child is Mrs. Margaret Thompson, mother of Taylor Thompson. Jacob Steele, James Steele and Mrs. Wallace McClure were her stepchildren and she was really the only mother they ever knew. She was a devoted communicant of the Old School Baptist church and was a woman of many noble qualities. The funeral occurred Monday at 10 o'clock, interment at Oak Hill. - thanks so much to Kim H :)