v. JANNET LUCKEY, b. 1765; d. 1840; m. SAMUEL STEELE
Notes for JANNET LUCKEY
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. After Samuel Steele's wife Jane/Jannet died in about 1840, he moved to the Springfield, Greene County, Missouri 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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