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We Served, We Settled
Patriots and Pioneers - The legacies of the Shane and Beck families
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 1875 - 1946 (70 years)
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| Name |
Steele, Ervin Dugan |
| Birth |
15 Aug 1875 |
Sciotoville-now part of Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
21 May 1946 |
Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA |
| Burial |
Ridgewood Cemetery, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA |
| Person ID |
I3725 |
Shane and Beck |
| Last Modified |
14 Jun 2023 |
| Father |
Steele, Jasper Newton, b. 18 May 1846, Centre, Pennsylvania, USA d. 25 Nov 1921, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA (Age 75 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Ervin, Mary, b. 1856 d. 1920 (Age 64 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
9 Oct 1873 |
Jackson, Jackson, Ohio, USA |
| Divorce |
Abt 1890 |
| Family ID |
F1472 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Williams, Joanna Belle, b. 17 Jan 1876, Franklin Furnace, Scioto, Ohio, USA d. 9 Dec 1944, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA (Age 68 years) |
| Marriage |
3 Mar 1900 |
Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA |
| Children |
| | 1. Steele, Alice Grace, b. 1 Aug 1901, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA d. 29 Dec 1980, McArthur, Vinton, Ohio, USA (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 2. Steele, Harold Benson, b. 12 Oct 1904, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA d. 1 Dec 1973, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA (Age 69 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 3. Steele, Arthur Daly, b. 12 Oct 1904, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA d. 27 Dec 1977, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] |
| + | 4. Steele, Helen Gertrude, b. 29 Sep 1907, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA d. Nov 1982, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 5. Steele, Marjorie May, b. 4 Oct 1911, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA d. 16 Jan 1980, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F1469 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
14 Jun 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Ervin Steele was a coal miner in the Wellston, OH area during his young adult years. He moved his family to Huntington, WV in 1913, at age 38, when the local Wellston coal mines closed and he needed employment. He went to work for his brother Robert, who owned a Furniture store in Huntington, and the great influenza epidemic of 1918 resulted in the evolution of "The Steele Funeral Home" from the furniture store. Ervin became the undertaker of the Steele Funeral Home and remained in that position until he retired in 1941. Ervin was a 32nd degree Mason.
I never saw my grandfather, Ervin, without his being clothed in a suit and tie, except in his home where he would remove the suit coat but still had his tie on. He was very distinguished looking as one would expect an undertaker to be. As a child I remember that he and his brother Robert, my uncle Bob, had the baldest and shiniest heads I ever saw. Grandpa Steele always gave me a nickle when he came to visit and drove a 1937 Packard - a great, classic automobile. Comments by: Arthur D. Steele, Jr.
OBIT (Huntington Herald Dispatch, May 22, 1946) : Ervin D. Steele, 75, 835 Twelfth Avenue, who had been associated with the Steele Funeral Home since 1913 died at his home last night. Burial will be in an Ohio cemetery but other arrangements are incomplete. The body is at the funeral home. Mr. Steele was a patient in a Huntington hospital recently but recovered sufficiently to return to his home. Death was unexpected. He was born in Sciotoville, O., August 15, 1871, and came to Huntington in 1913. He was the brother of R. R. Steele of the Steele Funeral Home. Mr. Steele was a member of the Methodist Church and was a 32nd Degree Mason. Surviving are two sons, Harold and Arthur Steele of Huntington, three daughters, Mrs. Alice Raines of Wilkesville, 0., Mrs. Harry Ouenon of Keystone, W.Va., and Mrs. T. A. Martufi of the Twelfth Avenue address; one sister, Mrs. Rhoda Braley of Wellston, O., and two brothers, J. D. Steele of Tonkawah, Okla., and R. R. Steele. His wife preceded him in death more than a year ago.
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