This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Steele / DuBois / Johnston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YdJBAIB/1473.1481.1483.1491.1496.1506.1 Message Board Post: Hi Howard. I just found info that has this surname in my husband's family line. All I have is that Virginia Steele married Joseph DuBois. Virginia would have been born about 1855-1860. They had a daughter (I think their only child) Agnes DuBois who I believe was born in Dallas, TX mabout 1880. Agnes married Benton Johnston 1901-1902. They had one child, Gladys born September 1902. Agnes died 1905-1906 in Dallas. One of the reasons your post was interesting to me was that the Johnston family moved from Minnesota to Wisconsin. Benton moved to Dallas TX and the rest of his family moved to Washington. I believe that Benton knew the DuBois family prior to Texas. The other interesting thing is that after Agnes died, Gladys was sent to a private girls boarding school in Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota from the time her mother died when she was 3 years old until she graduated when she was 17 in 1919. I have thought that there was probably family living in the area. I had! thought it was Johnston family, but now that I have found that the Steele side of the family also came from Minnesota, it is possible that it was Steele family that lived close to the boarding school. Agnes would come back home to Dallas TX to visit, and stay with her grandparents Joseph DuBois and Virginia (Steele) DuBois. I would love to make a connection and identify info on any possible siblings or parents to Virginia. I know that this Steele family had some degree of wealth for the times. Hoping we have something that matches. Connie connie_naylor@yahoo.com