Hi Betty..

Sorry for the delay in answering your post.

I've been in contact for most of the day with  our Steel(e) cousins.

Sad to say we have been neglectful with our record keeping,since we couldn't place the ancestors of Lemuel STEEL(E) outside of Ohio, mainly  Fairfield and Logan Counties. Some of the family migrated to the western counties of Williams and Paulding, Ohio. Later a branch from Paulding moved to Midland County, Michigan abt.1900

We've determined that he is not from the New Enland branch of John and George Steele, although there  is a Lemuel  Sr. and his son Lemuel in that line of descent.

 

One of the cousins had been told that the family was of Scot-Irish  descent and  lived in  Virginia..later  to become West Virginia but this is only oral history and nothing to prove the  statement.

I've looked over your group message board with databases and as yet can't find a connection.

One of the cousins lives in Alsaka and I've been told that he is looking through ship manifests trying to find any thing that might link the families together.  Nothing so far.

If anything turns  up in our research  that will be of help to you, I'll be posting to the  board.

One thing of note... this was written to me this evening: