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Some notes and personal inspections of Cemeteries listed . Steele Cemetery listed in Greene County Pa at Garards Fort, Pa.is actually located on a hill overlooking Davistown Pa. Davistown today is not much more than an intersection of two roads and location of a school. The cemetery is entered by a partially hidden access road and traveled best by a truck or SUV. The distance up the hill is about 300 yards. Once there, the cemetery is or was in neglect . Most of the tombstones covered by weeds. The cemetery was once part of the David Steel farm which David started farming in 1820 and in early 1900, his son William formed a Steele Cemetery Corporation and deeded the land to the corporation. Today , it is part of State Game Lands. David was the first buried there at age 40 in 1842 To the South east of above Steele Cemetery lies the Steel/Debolt Cemetery, this Cemetery is inaccessible by normal means. It sits on corporate lands and posted with no trespassing signs . However, if one forges the Meadow Run stream , climbs up a 25 ft cliff, you can see my Great Grandfather James Steel's grave site and his wife and two daughters , one son and several grandchildren and one son in law. James Steel was a younger brother of David Steel above. In Friendsville Maryland, I could find no Steel tombstones , The Cemetery is about 3 to 4 acres and is well maintained. The Cemetery either housed a family of early Steel settlers or was once part of a Steel farm. Friendsville is a picturesque little village. Today, it is most noted for white water rafting as the day I visited it, the town was filled with pickups from a rafting club.. At Garards Fort PA, the cemetery there is also known as Garards Fort or Goshen Cemetery. There are many Steels and related families through marriage buried there .In fact, if one is tracing the several Steel families which settled in Greene Count y in early 1800s, one would have to check with Cornerstone Genealogical Society and Dorothy Hennen's collections of cemetery records to cover all possibilities of locating kin. Cornerstone Society is located at the Public Library in Waynesburg PA and is opened each afternoon at 1pm for 3hrs and on Sat. at 10 am till about 3PM. Wayne Steel Wixom, Michigan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ waywix@core.com