This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACI/1563.3933.4515.1 Message Board Post: Now that I have read through the whole thread.... & it looks like this Steel family in Owen CO is the same one you are discussing. Here is the background: My gg.grandfather was Robert Steele Taylor born 1832 in TN. The assumption is that his mother was a 'Steele' as indicated by Robert's middle name. NOTE that the 1880 census lists NC as her birth state. This led me to look at other Steeles in the area of Davis CO Iowa and Owen CO Indiana. Upon researching land records I found a John A. Steel who (also)married into my Taylor family signed off on a piece of property that my Robert S. Taylor owned. This John A. had a sister Elizabeth who also married in my Shields family. (Close group) This same John A. Steel is found in Owen CO Indiana, along with some of my other Taylor family members. -- I would love to know more about this John A. Steel and his sis Elizabeth! My question: Does anyone know of 'a' female Steele who married a Taylor that was born in NC, & was in Owen CO Indiana at the same time that these other Steeles (James, John, John R., Nemien, Robert<g>, & Samuel ) lived there? Also adding that there are several Steele HHs in the Davis CO Iowa 1850 census including a Jane Y. Steel age 45. All leads appreciated. Thank you, Debra Anderson